Has anyone tried writing a lot of code through it? What are the results, the sensations, the size of the hole in your pocket?

I got some useful answers in a similar post about Opus , but not one here yet. :thinking:

I don’t think I’m rich enough for him :skull_and_crossbones: [2025-07-07_11-43-23]

o3 failed a lot with my code, and I mean a lot.

Both. I honestly don’t know what the rage for o3 is about for complex programming tasks it performs horribly.

i must agree, o3 is not usable based on my experience, i never had any luck with it… it takes long time before it starts making any changes and they are nearly all the time completely incorrect. also since the pricing has changed, each prompt of o3 costs me around 0.70$ so i dont even want to see th…

o3 didnt work well when i tried it out :((

It’s pretty bad for me; I can say it’s completely useless. Also, the regular version is better than the pro one, which is strange.

Not sure how representative this is, but here’s a case: https://github.com/Artemonim/AgentDocstrings/pull/14 The first commit was an attempt to modify the code using Claude 4 Thinking. Claude ended up changing some critical functionality, and attempts to modify those changes with Auto or o4-mini …

o3 is good for planning and inspecting bugs and creating docs (good tool calls), but executing is meh. I use it to make todos and use Sonnet 4 to implement them

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