New GPT-6 just dropped from OpenAI — everyone gets access within the week. I've been testing it hard already (thanks, JetBrains), and honestly, I'm impressed: I've seen and touched every big-name model, I'm hard to surprise, but this one managed it.
What impressed me most
- It actually talks like a normal person — short and to the point, no more three-screens-long slop in the replies
- It understands what a scene will look like while it's still coding it. I don't know how to explain this, but humans just can't do that: while it's writing the code, before it's even run, it already KNOWS what it's going to look like. It gives you this weird feeling like you've got an alien brain plugged in, one that thinks differently while it's making things
A dacha near Odesa, in 15 minutes
Here's an example it put together in 15 minutes from a simple prompt — no spec, just "go do it, here are the photo and video files."
It's the dacha near Odesa where I spent a lot of time as a kid. I gave the model about 10 photos and videos, and in a couple of turns it built a 3D map — one I can use both for nostalgia and as an actual CS 1.6 map. What really got me were the textures: it cut frames out of the video itself and mounted them in frames, and turned one into a shower curtain.
Which tells me that at some point, any old family photos could be reconstructed into actual scenes — 3D or not, doesn't matter: the model just looks at the photos or frames in space, figures out where everything goes on its own, and builds the map it needs.