The Lazy Side of o3 and o4-mini: Cutting Corners for Cost?

Published On Sat Apr 19 2025
The Lazy Side of o3 and o4-mini: Cutting Corners for Cost?

Using o3 and o4-mini for coding has been extremely disappointing. When you ask for full code, they say things like “Paste the rest here” or skip entire parts.

It’s lazy behavior — and honestly, it feels like they’re cutting outputs just to save cost. Output length is drastically shorter than before.

o3-mini-high could generate thousands of lines, but now even a few hundred is too much. This isn’t an upgrade. It’s a downgrade with a shiny label. Anyone else experiencing this?

I completely agree it’s not even suitable for coding. It’s terrible for coding. This is bad news for me because I’ve got exams and coursework coming up very soon. This is the worst timing for them to pull this crap.

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Questionable Decisions

They know what they’re doing not making o3-mini-high available too? If I’m being honest, sometimes it’s hard to not see this as them having an agenda. Because the likes the legacy models like 4.5 and 4 remain usable, yet their clearly best model at reasoning, o3-mini-high, nowhere to be found..?

I agree; this is such a scam. All the models suck, and the subscription is useless. Please put back the o1 and the longer text responses. Mini high can’t even do code; it’s so dumb to do basic coding.

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