When a Model Gets Stuck: How GPT‑5.2 Finished a 'Simple' Spinner That Opus 4.5 Couldn't

A tiny terminal UX request turned into a concurrency bug hunt. Claude Opus 4.5 got close but kept looping on edge cases; GPT‑5.2 finally nailed the real fix by treating it as a UI state machine and serializing rendering.

January 3, 2026 · Vyacheslav Mayorskiy, dev team