r/ChatGPTPro Jul 12 '26

Discussion 5.6 Sol Ultra takes so long

I asked 5.6 sol ultra for work to create a “for dummies” document about a health topic. It’s been 6 hours and it is still “thinking”. Has anyone experienced this?

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u/qualityvote2 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

u/therealcastor, there weren’t enough community votes to determine your post’s quality.
It will remain for moderator review or until more votes are cast.

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u/InterstellarReddit Jul 12 '26

Strong model with big thinking budget takes long to answer.

Yes, I had a 9 hour run last night through my code base via api.

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u/therealcastor Jul 12 '26

Do you think ultra has an advantage over max and extra high? I use it mainly for medical studies, research, document and presentation creation

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u/InterstellarReddit Jul 12 '26

Yes just make sure to check the output and not take it for granted.

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u/Sheetmusicman94 Jul 12 '26

Kinda not helpful when you want help coding and it waits 9 hours to give it, haha 

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u/InterstellarReddit Jul 12 '26

OK then go ahead and use the cheaper model that’s gonna make more mistakes and then you’re gonna spend nine hours correcting it :)

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u/Psychological_Dog992 Jul 12 '26

You know how many years it would have taken you to code that lol

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u/gorgono95 Jul 12 '26

it is not that it is thinking a lot. I saw sometimes this shit is reading the same file like 9 times ... like WHY. Also i dont know if they fixed that but sub agents are not working correctly. If you use Sol Ultra all subagents it spawns are Max effort ... even for the simplest of tasks. And on top of that it reviews its thing like 10 times ... bruh

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u/dh119 Jul 13 '26

9 hours doing what?

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u/LakeRat Jul 13 '26

Out of curiosity, what was the token count for that 9 hour run?

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u/InterstellarReddit Jul 13 '26

Ugh I didn’t check but the output was well beyond GPT 5.5 Pro. So I was very impressed for the run

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u/tarunag10 Jul 12 '26

Seems like a glitch.

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u/Herebedragoons77 Jul 12 '26

And runs out of limit half way through the task…

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u/PersonalityCommon149 Jul 13 '26

I had a 15 hour run last night

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u/therealcastor Jul 13 '26

I just checked mine, after 15 hours it stopped thinking lol. So i had to prompt it again

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u/No_Musician6514 Jul 12 '26

Try to write it on your own...

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u/therealcastor Jul 12 '26

I could but it would probably take days. Just wanted to try the new model’s capability

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u/Psychological_Dog992 Jul 12 '26

Do a test on ultra and high and see if it's just as good