Live: NEW MODEL VIBE CHECK
Every's Dan Shipper, Mike Taylor, Kieran Klaassen, and Natash live-test three new AI models across writing, coding, and design to help builders decide which to standardize on.
The gist
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Opus 5.5 has won back users from competitors by combining strong intelligence with lower cost and a more useful personality.
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Running Opus at low or medium effort often gets better results per dollar than maxing out, especially for creative and design tasks.
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GPT-6 Soul is faster for straight editorial writing but contributes fewer original ideas than Opus 5.5, making it better for speed-focused workflows.
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Grok 4.7 works best inside IDE integrations like Cursor for coding rather than one-shot creative tasks, and early bugs have largely been fixed.
"I rated this like green gold. Basically I think it almost would have been a gold apart from it just messed up a couple of tasks due to poor time management. It's really easy to talk to. It's like Fable 5.1 level in terms of personality. And it shed all of those weird quirks th..."
▶ Play at 2:37"Opus 5.5 is where things just get crazy. It is very very well polished, there are really high quality interactive elements everywhere. It's a better UI designer and a better teacher and this comes from its ability to just be a better writer and be better at front end than any ..."
▶ Play at 32:25250 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Chris Koerner, and This Week in Startups.
See all on the Claude page"That was what originally made me switch and make the leap to Codex. And so I've been using the OpenAI models since then as like my main daily driver. The 50% I'm doing with Codex is really just because I have a lot of existing threads there and those are slowly moving over."
▶ Play at 3:16"Codex is also amazing and Claude is catching up — the app is not as amazing as the others, but I do use all the apps, all the things."
▶ Play at 1:40:2697 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Claire Vo, and Dan Shipper.
See all on the Codex pageWhat they recommend · 6 picks
"I rated this like green gold. Basically I think it almost would have been a gold apart from it just messed up a couple of tasks due to poor time management. It's really easy to ..."
"Opus 5.5 is where things just get crazy. It is very very well polished, there are really high quality interactive elements everywhere. It's a better UI designer and a better tea..."
"I've moved back to the Cursor IDE over the agents window. It just seems to work a little faster. Cursor projects allows me to have one chat for whatever I'm working on and it wi..."
Mike Taylor
2 picks · guest
"I rated this like green gold. Basically I think it almost would have been a gold apart from it just messed up a couple of tasks due to poor time management. It's really easy to ..."
"That was what originally made me switch and make the leap to Codex. And so I've been using the OpenAI models since then as like my main daily driver. The 50% I'm doing with Code..."
Kieran Klaassen
2 picks · guest
"If you're curious, check out Opus 5.5. Opus 5.5 is a special one — I really think it deserves a special mention. If there's a winner for me, it's Opus this week in launches. I r..."
"Codex is also amazing and Claude is catching up — the app is not as amazing as the others, but I do use all the apps, all the things."
Natash
1 pick · guest
"Opus 5.5 is where things just get crazy. It is very very well polished, there are really high quality interactive elements everywhere. It's a better UI designer and a better tea..."
Tyler Denk
1 pick
"I've moved back to the Cursor IDE over the agents window. It just seems to work a little faster. Cursor projects allows me to have one chat for whatever I'm working on and it wi..."
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