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title: "Is gpt-5.4 slow?"
description: "What you don't have six agents orchestrating the work of 6 subagents yet. I saw in a work chat that people were complaining about 5.4 being too slow and they..."
date: 2026-03-04
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tags:
  - ping
template: ping
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What you don't have six agents orchestrating the work of 6 subagents yet.  I
saw in a work chat that people were complaining about 5.4 being too slow and
they keep going back to opus.  For me its been working great, I have it working
on critical infrastructure work, that I will need to maintain.  I appreciate
its accuracy and completeness.  And honestly I'm **rarely** watching agents
run.  Its like watching paint dry at this point.  Its interesting to read their
thinking prompts, but not productive work.  While its running I'm teeing up the
net prompt.  Working with another set of agents to write a set of issues for
the next epic.  I might be too privileged though.  I own a whole platform and
have plenty of autonomy to work on what I see fit for the day.  I don't have a
boss breathing down my neck waiting for a single ticket to be complete.  I'm
working on 6 projects at a time.  I'm taking walks to avoid becoming a burnt
out zombie.  I'm definitely not complaining about it kicking out massive
amounts of code too slow though.