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I wanted an AI assistant. Why does choosing the model feel like another job?

This is the model picker in my Codex app. Sol, Astra, Luna, Terra, multiple generations... the menu even has a scroll bar. I get why frontier models and faster, cheaper models all exist. Different tasks need different tools. But how many choices do we need before picking the tool becomes its own ta…

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  1. 2026-10-01 13:47 · r/ChatGPT
    I wanted an AI assistant. Why does choosing the model feel like another job?

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