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Two top models dug an engineering problem into a hole he could not climb out of

Spent half a day switching GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable in Cursor on an engineering problem; they dug a hole of complexity he could not recover, gave up and restarted from scratch.

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How it works

  1. He spends half a day switching between two top models in an editor
  2. They dig a hole of complexity he cannot recover
  3. He gives up and restarts from scratch

Why it’s worth knowing

Switching models doubled the digging instead of filling the hole.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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