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GPT 5.2's improved visual analysis is no…

GPT 5.2's improved visual analysis is no joke. I took 20 PDFs pertaining to our condo purchase and asked for transcriptions/translations with Codex CLI set to 5.2 (xhigh). What's been produced so far is professional-level quality and 10.5 hours in, it's still cranking on them!

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