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GPT 5.2 Chat
by OpenAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDCODING HELPWRITING HELPBRAINSTORMINGPAID
RANKED #76 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #129 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.1 · 1,204 VOICES
A versatile chatbot designed to assist with coding, writing, and everyday problem-solving.
HAPPY8.3
180 mentions
SAD6.7
264 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 318 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. OpenAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
GPT 5.2 Chat is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS5.4
Llama 4 MaverickMetaPick for free, local deployment with top-tier multimodal reasoning and coding.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE1.9k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.9
Kimi K3MoonshotPick when you need frontier-level multimodal intelligence and massive context.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY❤️ CROWD FAVORITE1.7k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users praise GPT 5.2 Chat for its strong coding help, but many complain about high costs, frequent refusals, and service outages. Some also note that it occasionally makes things up.
1086 POSTS · 118 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · REDDIT · BLUESKY · DEV FORUMS · GITHUB · LEMMY · X · DEV.TO · BLOG · OTHER FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (11 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (14 mentions)
- People find it expensive (12 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (10 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (7 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMIXED FEELINGS
8 thumbs up · 12 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
4 thumbs up · 10 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
11 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 14 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 7 thumbs down
- SpeedA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- WritingMIXED FEELINGS
2 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2025-12-11 · 7144 UPVOTESGPT-5.2 is AGI. 🤯
GPT-5.2 is AGI. 🤯
- REDDIT · 2026-02-14 · 3042 UPVOTESAsking both ChatGPT and Claude the car wash question
Asking both ChatGPT and Claude the car wash question
- REDDIT · 2025-12-18 · 2032 UPVOTESIt’s over. GPT 5.2 aces one of the most important benchmarks and it’s not even close!
It’s over. GPT 5.2 aces one of the most important benchmarks and it’s not even close!
- REDDIT · 2026-01-15 · 1543 UPVOTESCEO of Cursor said they coordinated hundreds of GPT-5.2 agents to autonomously build a browser from scratch in 1 week
CEO of Cursor said they coordinated hundreds of GPT-5.2 agents to autonomously build a browser from scratch in 1 week
- REDDIT · 2025-12-11 · 1397 UPVOTESGPT-5.2 Thinking evals
GPT-5.2 Thinking evals
- HACKER NEWS · 2025-12-11 · 1195 UPVOTESGPT-5.2
GPT-5.2
- REDDIT · 2026-01-18 · 810 UPVOTESCursor AI CEO shares GPT 5.2 agents building a 3M+ lines web browser in a week
Cursor AI CEO shares GPT 5.2 agents building a 3M+ lines web browser in a week
- REDDIT · 2025-12-05 · 754 UPVOTESBREAKING: OpenAI declares Code Red & rushing "GPT-5.2" for Dec 9th release to counter Google
BREAKING: OpenAI declares Code Red & rushing "GPT-5.2" for Dec 9th release to counter Google
- REDDIT · 2026-02-03 · 740 UPVOTESOpenAI seems to have subjected GPT 5.2 to some pretty crazy nerfing.
OpenAI seems to have subjected GPT 5.2 to some pretty crazy nerfing.
- REDDIT · 2026-06-11 · 616 UPVOTESDifferences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
Differences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-02-13 · 574 UPVOTESGPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
- REDDIT · 2026-02-07 · 572 UPVOTESI gave AI agents my genome and let them run on a GPU cluster for 48 hours. This saved my life.
I gave AI agents my genome and let them run on a GPU cluster for 48 hours. This saved my life.