O3 and o4-mini are extremly bad lazy and not suitable for coding anymore

im going back to 4o because o3 sucks :monkey_face: :basketball: at coding. its so lazy, keeps giving half answers. i tell it take as much time as you need to give me a full answer then it thinks for 2-4 seconds and gives me :poop: while dropping bits all over the place and hallucinating a bunch of random useless extra stuff.

maybe it’s because i have PLUS instead of PRO account?

i don’t understand how openai says it does well in all these coding contests and benchmarks certainly not in the real world and specifically c++. maybe the context window needs to get an order magnitude bigger before it can tackle programming tasks involving multiple source files or one source file >1000 lines

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