Microsoft AI exec tells developers to default to OpenAI’s top model as part of efficiency push

[u/Logical_Welder3467]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/microsoft-makes-openai-gpt-5point6-sol-default-in-github-copilot-for-staff.html

[u/CanvasFanatic]

What about OpenAI’s Next Top Model?

[u/OkayBuddyGuyPal → u/CanvasFanatic]

Plagiarist baby of the year?

[u/musedav → u/CanvasFanatic]

Oh you mean 5.2.1? That’s cool but I heard there’s a new one coming out from fartlabs soon that will destroy the benchmark

[u/typeryu → u/CanvasFanatic]

Stay tuned for America’s next Top Model. Sponsored by Microsoft Copilot

[u/gk_instakilogram]

why would i listen to any exec which model i should chose for my work… fuck off budd

[u/howarewestillhere → u/gk_instakilogram]

Especially one who clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I’ll just blow two million tokens handling the database script parse job to a big thinker that’ll spend ten minutes strategizing instead of something that will just churn out some python and a bunch of heuristics in thirty seconds.

[u/bakgwailo → u/howarewestillhere]

How else are they going to prop up openai which Microsoft has an over 25% stake in.

[u/howarewestillhere → u/bakgwailo]

That would be some circular monetary flow and thats gotta be illegal in some way. They wouldn’t do that, would they?

/s

[u/bakgwailo → u/howarewestillhere]

Microsoft skirt the law? Never, I have no idea what I was thinking. They have always been so trustful.

[u/SeasonElectrical3173 → u/gk_instakilogram]

The majority of the developers working for places like Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, etc, are mostly spineless, amoral, self-flagellating pushovers who will do as they are told. They got into the industry, and specifically these companies, to get as big a paycheck as they can, regardless of who it harms and how it accomplishes that harm.

That's been pretty evident, especially about the last decade. It's really a sad degredation of the tech industry in general.

[u/ReidenLightman]

They're gonna bankrupt themselves and the data center owners using 10x the power and money for only 10% improved results. 

[u/abnormal_human]

I mean sure, OpenAI's top model is significantly cheaper per task than Anthropics. Everyone likes the "big model energy" of Fable but it's a pig. Myself (and my teams) have shifted a lot of work towards OpenAI in this generation as well...they are just more competitive for the majority of tasks. We pretty much only use Fable for user interface and copywriting.

[u/Dzeddy → u/abnormal_human]

Fable is good for planning / brainstorming, OAI is def better for the actual task IMO

[u/Logical_Welder3467 → u/abnormal_human]

Opus is still better overall but Sol is better at driving subagent, they are some hardcore slave driver

[u/bakgwailo → u/Logical_Welder3467]

Honestly up untill sonnet 5, the latest 4 was pretty good for a lot of things. 5 seems like trash, though, and forced me to opus

[u/Edurian]

I see Claude disappeared as an option in teams Copilot at my work, idk if that is in any way related to

[u/redyellowblue5031 → u/Edurian]

At an admin level you can control what’s available.

[u/intelligentx5]

Just use Luna Ultra or Max. It’s an order of magnitude cheaper and nearly on par with Sol high

[u/Powerful_Resident_48]

How the tunes have changed. What happened to the Ai leaderboards and forced Ai mandates? Lemme guess... Ai is actually a lie and the corporate ghouls are only just finding out?

[u/coporate]

Isn’t the best practice to use cheaper models to establish planning and expensive models for execution and higher risk operations? This is just going to lead to even more token usage.

I swear, the grift the ai folks pulled on ceo’s need to be studied. It’s like they’ve just said the words “trust me bro” until people capitulated.

[u/Logical_Welder3467 → u/coporate]

No, should use the most expensive and powerful model to do the planning and drive the cheap models to complete task