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GPT-5.5 vs Claude: I Switched For 7 Days
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- May 1, 2026
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Summary
Send us Fan Mail GPT-5.5 dropped last week and the internet hasn't shut up about it. Switch now. Drop Claude. Move everything to OpenAI. So Gael actually did it. He swiped completely to Codex and GPT-5.5 for a week, ran the same business prompts on both models, and compared the real outputs side by side. The verdict isn't what you'd expect from the hype cycle. In this episode we break down: → Why GPT-5.5 is more thorough but Claude still wins for marketers → The two-engineers analogy that e...