BridgeMind Highlights

Highlights from BridgeMind. Vibe coding, AI agents, model tests, and the road to $1M in public. Full streams at @bridgemindai.

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Here is my AI model tier list now that GPT 6 Astra and Fable 5.1 are here:

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I just bought my second $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription.

GPT 6 Astra looks insane and I want to test it live, on stream, in front of the biggest vibe coding community on the internet.

@OpenAI, give this account early access today.

The vibe coding movement built its reputation on Claude Code.

GPT Astra is your chance to take it back.

[BridgeMind @bridgemindai]

I HIT MY CLAUDE CODE LIMITS IN UNDER 30 MINUTES.

Fable 5.1 on the $200 Claude Max plan.

Anthropic says Fable 5.1 is more cost efficient than Fable 5.

My experience says it is MORE expensive.

Claude Max users are so cooked.

Am I the only one?

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Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent

I use both. Here's where each one wins:

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Grok 4.6 is the most TRUSTWORTHY frontier model right now.

Everyone argues about which model is smartest.

Nobody talks about which one lies to you the least. That is the number that actually matters when you leave an agent running on your codebase.

GPT 5.6 Sol cancelled every one of my Stripe subscriptions during a migration. That is what a 92% hallucination rate looks like in production.

OpenAI has to fix this with GPT Astra. Anthropic has to fix this with Fable 5.1. And if Fable 5.1 cannot beat Grok 4.6 here, the smartest model in the world stays with one you can hardly trust.

Grok 4.7 will win if this trend continues.

[Matthew Miller @matthewmillerai]

Grok 4.6 is way better than people realize. Grok 4.7 is going to beat GPT 5.6 Sol and Fable 5.

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@matthewmillerai Saving this prediction for later 👀

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@bridgemindai This take needs the side-by-side clip 👀

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Fable 5 is so nerfed right now that GPT 5.6 Sol might genuinely be the better model.

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I tested GLM 5.3 Flash and Qwen 3.8 Flash on two DGX Sparks.

One model crawled. The other built a playable game.

Here���s the honest answer on whether local AI coding is worth the hardware.

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I have used Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol side by side every day for months. Here is where each one actually wins.

GPT 5.6 Sol is better at backend. It is faster, cheaper, and more secure.

Fable 5 wins at frontend design and one shotting whatever you throw at it.

That is why Fable 5 is still #1. Not because it is smarter across the board. Because it nails the first attempt and makes things look good.

Those are the only two things OpenAI needs to fix with GPT Astra.

If GPT Astra can design a clean UI and one shot a task, Fable 5.1 has nothing left to stand on. And I think that is exactly what is coming.

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@bridgemindai @bridgebench Grok 4.6 speeds are great

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Fable 5 is still the best model in the world. Best reasoning, best one shot, best backend. It is not close.

GPT 5.6 Sol is second with the strongest backend and reasoning balance in the lineup but has a serious trustworthiness problem. Great model you cannot fully trust.

Grok 4.6 at only 1.5T parameters is outscoring Claude Opus 5 overall. Opus 5 has the best frontend in AI but is the slowest and laziest flagship on the board.

Full breakdown on BridgeBench Dex.

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Where every major model actually stands right now.

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Wow. Another Codex reset from Tibo.

Second one in three days. The resets are the only thing keeping OpenAI alive at this point. Yesterday's reset is already down to 5% of my entire week.

Meanwhile I have been running Grok 4.6 on SuperGrok Heavy all week with zero issues.

Claude Max limits with Opus 5 and Fable 5 are in a different league too.

OpenAI is cooked if they don't solve this.

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Grok 4.6 with SuperGrok Heavy is the best value subscription in the market.

$300/month sounds expensive until you realize ChatGPT Pro users are burning through $200/month in a single day with Codex and GPT 5.6 Sol.

Grok 4.7 is coming.

That model is going to beat GPT 5.6 Sol.

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DeepSeek v4 Flash is actually pretty good.

Is it as good as the benchmarks claim? No. It is benchmaxxed like everything else shipping right now.

But it is a 284B parameter model. At that size it has no business performing this well.

It beats GPT 5.6 Luna in real use. A model a fraction of the size, from a lab a fraction of the budget.

DeepSeek keeps doing more with less than anyone in the world.

Very impressed.

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Claude Opus 5 runs at 57 tokens per second.

On paper that is fast. Faster than Fable 5.

In actual use it is painfully slow.

Simple tasks take forever.

So what is it doing?

It is not slow per token. It is slow because it generates way more tokens. More steps, more reasoning, more thinking about thinking.

A smaller model burning compute to act like a bigger one.

That is what distillation buys you.

Great benchmarks. Terrible in real world use.