First rep of 7

Huge congrats to @Antra Verma for being the first to cross the finish line 👏 To celebrate, we're hooking her up with a FREE AIS shirt, and her official completion certificate is attached below 🏆 Let's give her a massive round of applause in the comments, she set the bar! Can't wait to see more of you submit your projects and join the graduate club. 👉 Want to take on the challenge? Head to the Classroom section or jump in HERE 👕 And if you want to grab some AIS merch for yourself, check it out HERE Cheers everyone! - Nate

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OpenAI just dropped GPT 5.5 and the benchmarks look strong against Opus 4.7, but benchmarks only tell part of the story. I ran four head-to-head experiments in Codex and Claude Code to see how the models actually compare on speed, cost, and output quality. The results were not what I expected.