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Season 1 · Issue #1 · Oct 15, 2026
We test AI agents, chatbots, and coding tools, then rank them like a season patch. Press releases do not get S-tier.
Codex (GPT-6.1 Sol), Claude Code (Claude 5.5 family), Antigravity + Gemini 4 Argon, Cursor
Empty this week.
Issue #1 · v1.0.0
· Covers October 6–15, 2026
Issue 1, October 15, 2026: Gemini 4 Argon ships, GPT-5.5 leaves Codex, Haiku 5.5 hides a tokenizer tax, and the first coding-agent tier list locks S-tier.
Read the patchMy Codex automation broke yesterday
Since October 14, 2026 at 3 PM ET, Codex tasks that pinned gpt-5.5 fail for ChatGPT sign-ins. Swap the pin for gpt-6.1-sol.
Run the fixS through F. S-tier stays locked until a tool earns it in a test we actually ran.
A weekly patch log of what got cheaper, slower, removed, or quietly taxed.
Next week: the same vibe-coding task, three agents, one scoreboard.
Since October 14, 2026 at 3 PM ET, Codex tasks that pinned gpt-5.5 fail for ChatGPT sign-ins. Swap the pin for gpt-6.1-sol.
One email a week. The tier list, the nerfs, and a fix you can run. Free, on beehiiv.