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An honest balance sheet on the new GPT-5.5 and the Codex agent: real 2026 prices, official benchmarks, verifiable advantages, logged disadvantages and a practical ritual to keep your sanity.

A technical reading, grounded in the 2025 MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research studies, of how passive AI use is quietly eroding critical thinking — and the concrete rituals that keep it from happening.

Complete comparison of Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, Grok 4, DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3.6 Plus, and Llama 4 Maverick: benchmarks, strengths, and which to choose for your use case.