https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report What models we're running today, how they're configured, and what role each one plays in the factory. en-us Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:24:29 GMT https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report weather-report-2026-06-04 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Moved to gpt-5.5 across our OpenAI text/code defaults: CS/Math, Frontend Architecture, Architectural Critique, Security review, and the Sprint Planning consensus pair. Bumped the consensus Opus to opus-4.8. DevOps Tasks and QA Orchestration came off opus-4.7/max onto gpt-5.5 at default params, which is good enough there. Voice bumped gpt-realtime-1.5 to gpt-realtime-2. Heads up: Google updated gemini-3-flash-preview to be Gemini 3.5 Flash under the same model ID, so Image comprehension and Agentic dialogues get the upgrade for free. If you haven't already switched to using codex/gpt-5.5 as your defaults everywhere, this is a good time to do that. Gemini 3.5 Flash, while a solid agentic model and good for small tasks, does still sometimes end up in a tool call loop. Opus 4.8 is good when you need input from another model, but I would not daily drive anything with it right now; it burns too many tokens. The default for everyday tasks should be gpt-5.5 on low/medium before you bump up the reasoning. Modified: CS/Math Hard Problems, Frontend Aesthetics, Frontend Architecture, Architectural Critique, Sprint Planning, Devops Tasks, QA Orchestration, Security review, Image comprehension, Agentic dialogues, Voice (interactive). Added: Copy / Writing. https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report weather-report-2026-04-21 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Switched UX Ideation from gemini-3-pro-image-preview (Nano Banana Pro) to gpt-image-2 (ChatGPT Images 2.0). Modified: UX Ideation. https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report weather-report-2026-04-20 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Bumped opus-4.6 → opus-4.7 across our Anthropic defaults. We're seeing discrepancies with opus-4.7's adaptive thinking, so we're sticking with max thinking for now. gpt-5.3-codex remains our default implementation model — we've evaluated alternatives but haven't found a reason to switch. https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report weather-report-2026-03-12 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT gpt-5.4 has been formally adopted for planning and architectural critique. It replaces gpt-5.2 in our Sprint Planning consensus pair and Architectural Critique. Gemini can improve consensus in some cases for sprint planning. We're continuing to evaluate gpt-5.4 for implementation tasks but keeping gpt-5.3-codex as our default implementation model for now. https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report weather-report-2026-02-23 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT No specific changes in defaults, but please note for anyone evaluating Gemini 3.1, the gemini-3.1-pro-preview-customtools may significantly outperform gemini-3.1-pro-preview depending on your harness. We've switched to gpt-realtime-1.5 for our internal use cases but aren't officially defaulting to it yet. Very happy with Sonnet 4.6, it may overtake Opus for some of our everyday use cases. https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report weather-report-2026-02-13 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Happy with gpt-5.3-codex-spark. gpt-5.3-codex continues to be our preferred default implementation model with critiques and suggestions from Opus. Modified: Sprint Planning. Added: UX Ideation, Agentic dialogues, Voice (interactive). https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report weather-report-2026-02-06 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT New models this week. We're very happy with gpt-5.3-codex. No problems with Opus 4.6 so far.