🏴‍☠️ ChatGPT 5.2 is Here

The biggest AI update of the year just happened, and the silence surrounding it is absolutely deafening.

While the internet usually breaks over minor feature tweaks, a monumental shift in capability has slipped under the radar. I just saw this incredible post from an AI professional who broke down the specs of the new “5.2” release, and the numbers suggest we are dealing with an entirely different beast than the previous versions.

The apathy toward this release is confusing because the performance jump is not incremental; it is transformative for anyone doing serious knowledge work.

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The Specs: Why 5.2 is a Tier Shift

The expert’s data shows a jump in knowledge-work task success from 38% to 74%—from needy assistant to junior partner that can handle most complex requests alone. It can now absorb up to 700 pages of PDFs at once, removing manual chunking for teams working with long documents. Hallucinations dropped from 8.8% to 6.2%, and vision performance is rated at 88%.

Automating Financial Modeling with Precision

Instead of the usual broken spreadsheets, the expert uses a prompting strategy that reliably produces a formula-driven Excel workbook (.xlsx). The prompt enforces three scenarios—Base, Downside, Upside—and bans hard-coded numbers outside the input tab so the model’s output stays dynamic and auditable. Clear assumptions for revenue growth, churn, and costs push the AI into acting like a financial analyst.

Here is the exact prompt the post’s author shared to generate this model:

Build an Excel workbook (.xlsx) from the assumptions below.

Tabs:

Inputs (assumptions + 3 scenarios: Base/Downside/Upside)
Model (monthly for 12 months)
Dashboard (3 charts + 6 KPIs)

Assumptions:
Starting revenue: $120,000 MRR
Growth: Base 8% MoM, Downside 4%, Upside 12%
Churn: Base 3% MoM, Downside 5%, Upside 2%
CAC: $35 per new subscriber
ARPU: $6/mo
Fixed costs: $45,000/mo
Variable costs: 6% of revenue

Rules:
No hard-coded numbers outside Inputs.
Show formulas clearly.

Output the .xlsx file.

Forensic Document Analysis and Risk Detection

The second capability tackles the “contradiction problem.” Standard summaries hide internal conflicts in long documents and are risky for decisions. This workflow explicitly hunts for discrepancies and forces the model to separate facts from unknowns and risks.

Here is the prompt the author uses:

I’m going to paste a long document.

Your job:
Extract a 12-bullet factual summary. Each bullet must include an exact quote + where it came from (section heading or nearby text).
List contradictions or unclear claims (at least 8). For each: quote both sides.


Make a decision memo:
What we know (facts only)
What we don’t know (explicitly)
Risks (top 5)



Next actions (top 7, owner + deadline placeholders)

Rules:
If a detail is missing, write “Not stated”.
Do not guess.
Ready? Say: “Paste it.”

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Visual Diagnostics for Dashboards

The final insight uses upgraded vision to diagnose UI and data issues directly from screenshots, particularly for analytics dashboards. The prompt has the AI identify what it sees, extract key numbers, rank three likely issues or opportunities, propose a click-by-click verification plan, and draft a Slack update.

Copy this prompt to test the vision capabilities:

I will upload ONE screenshot of a dashboard, analytics page, or UI.

Do this:
Tell me what I’m looking at in 2 sentences.
Extract the 10 most important numbers/labels you can read (verbatim).
Diagnose 3 likely issues or opportunities (ranked).
Give a 7-step click-by-click plan for what to check next
Write a 5-line Slack update I can send to my team.

Rules:
Only use what you can see. If unreadable, say “Can’t read”.
Ask up to 3 clarifying questions only if truly needed.

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The author is releasing a full guide this Sunday that dives even deeper into these mechanics.

I highly recommend checking out the source link to stay ahead of the curve!

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