Did GPT5.5 get dumber/lazier yesterday for anyone else?
Summary
A user running multiple agents reports that after upgrading to GPT-5.5, the model suddenly became less capable at executing tool calls and more prone to giving suggestions instead of acting, speculating OpenAI may be throttling for load management.
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