GPT-5.6 Is Here — Why MonkeyCode Thinks You Are Still Solving the Wrong Problem

GPT-5.6 just launched. Sol benchmarks are through the roof. Twitter is full of this-is-insane and developers-are-cooked and AGI-by-December.

But if you are being honest with yourself, you will probably admit something uncomfortable: After a year of coding with AI, you are not a 10x engineer.

Not even 2x, for most people. Why?

Because you are chatting, not collaborating

The way most developers use AI has not evolved much since ChatGPT launched. The pattern is: hit a problem, open ChatGPT, ask a question, get some code, copy-paste, hope it works.