Bottom line, the outcome really matters more than the speed, also because since it's unlikely that any among us plebs is licensed to run GPT or Claude on our own hardware, we're renting GPU ticks: just run multiple CC / codex in parallel. 

In fact, my poor overburdened soul would be happier to not get queue-stressed by the review load, lol. Slow down, bots, slow down.

optimism

I'm not saying their approach of increasing thinking is bad. It's quite good. My speculation is that it means OpenAI was stagnating at a deeper level under the hood. I may or may not be proven wrong in a few weeks.