WHY ARE ALL OPENAI MODELS SO CHATTY - i thought claude kept going on, then i literally put it in claude.md that summarize your thinking in 200 words or less and tell me in points what you did and what's next. Did the same for CODEX - nope still keeps effing going on and on and on

If you dig in the settings you can control that. Like on a remote ssh connection, in the settings, you can pick “friendly or terse”

In the local app interface the winning choice is “efficient” and then turn off the sliders for warmth enthusiasm emoji etc.

It makes openai models so good to talk to i really have trouble switching.

astra afaict does two stage commits for everything. the first response is a plan, and the second is actually doing it.

its a lot less chatty imo

I find Opus 5.5 is better at giving a high level adversarial "should you do this to begin with" where GPT-6.1 is happy to go down any wrong path.

Also canceled my ChatGPT Pro $200/mo subscription. Their Oct 30 price hikes and slow GPT-6.1 model has me looking for alternatives.