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I agree here but also believe it was a way to expose better models to the masses. o3 was so spectacularly good. But a lot of people were still not using it. Even some of my friends who use ChatGPT daily I would say are you using o3 and get a blank stare.

So I think it’s also a way to push reasoning models to the masses. Which increases OpenAI’s cost.

But due to the routing layer definitely cost cutting for power users (most of HN)… except power users can learn to force it to use the reasoning model.



They are clearly building the product for mass adoption, not power users


Honestly as a daily (pro) user of ChatGPT, I didn’t even know o3 was the best, I thought 4o incorporated it (hence the o)

I remember reading that 4o was the best general purpose one, and that o3 was only good for deeper stuff like deep research.

The crappy naming never helped.


Wait, you decided to pay $200 a month and you didn’t know that o3 was better than 4o?


Oops I pay $20/month. Not the $200 pro. With Claude, Pro is the $19/mo plan. And Max is the $100-$200/month plan. Naming confusion.


The poor context length of O3 really cripples it.




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