GPT-5.6 ships in Kiro: OpenAI's dev agent gets an 82% cost cut
OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.6 into Kiro, their spec-driven coding agent. The headline? An 82% cost reduction on real dev tasks. Here's what actually changed—and why it matters.
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OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.6 into Kiro, their spec-driven coding agent. The headline? An 82% cost reduction on real dev tasks. Here's what actually changed—and why it matters.
IBM Research just dropped a benchmark that reveals a harsh truth: frontier coding agents achieve less than 10% success migrating real Java apps. The problem isn't code—it's everything else.
A 10,000-person software shop cut requirements analysis from weeks to hours by encoding senior judgment into Codex. Their playbook: treat it as a desktop agent, not a code assistant.