5.6 SOL should be renamed 5.6 SOL drift edition The current 5.6 SOL experience is not usable for serious coding workflows. It drifts in basic replies, loses constraints, apologizes, then repeats the same class of mistake. This is not a minor preference issue. It breaks long running terminal based d…

Don’t put too many skills in.. just a few

Honestly, I’m surprised that you’ve had such negative experiences. Yes, during the planning phase, it can gradually forget its own findings and the tasks that need to be completed. However, with 5.6 Ultra, if you provide sufficient documentation at the beginning to establish the context of what you …

I second this. It seems with every new update, its gets dumber, we are forced to babysit it, takes forever to retrain it, and it forgets basic guidelines that have been set more than once. Its drift is rediculous, kind of how it was when v5 hyped model came out. Stuck in death-loops and it looses it…

Just wanted to say that I am also having a real nightmare wrestling with 5.6 and its instruction drift. At this point, I consider Instruction Drift to be my personal dementor. I am not a coder, but my work has multiple steps and depends on the model adhering to the exact steps I set in place reliab…

the same issue as my using. it is away creating dummy testing to waste the token. it is slow and worse than opus 4.8

Thank you for offering that, I took a look at your post. It wasn’t helpful for my particular purposes, however, and I think you might have missed my point entirely. The model’s intelligence is no good to me if it cannot follow instructions reliably. :grimacing: When the work depends on the model f…

That is basically what the post says. Following exactly what you say - like “make a button that makes the entire world a forrest” and it doesn’t start with the button? Or you tell it to build a house and start with the roof? And it doesn’t follow? Maybe intelligence is needed. You are using a coder…

No, my post clearly talks about reliability in following instructions. At no point do I mention, or complain, about Sol’s ‘intelligence’, you inserted that into the discussion yourself. At no point did I state that I believe I have become a ‘senior architect’, that was you throwing shade. At no poin…

[image] Salt: however your tone appears to be becoming more and more disrespectful. I am very sorry. I didn’t want to sound disrespectful. I just have made different experience and it is basically that it needs alot of experience in coding to get something good from the model and make it foll…

5.6 SOL should be renamed 5.6 SOL drift edition

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jochenschultz July 23, 2026, 8:04am 69

Well, read this here then. It might enlighten you - why the stuff that looks stupid to you may as well be way smarter than you (think).

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5.6 SOL should be renamed 5.6 SOL drift edition

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