Dan Shipper: GPT-5.6 Accurately Handles 90% of Routine Emails
Dan Shipper · GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it. · Jul 9, 2026 · at 8:59
Every CEO Dan Shipper discusses using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model to draft email responses in his personal productivity workflow.
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“I think that five five was fine, but not quite good enough. Like, I would say generally the email responses here, so like this email draft, for example, is like, It's as if I wrote it, like it's, maybe there's something that I would slightly change, and I might, but for 90% of the, of emails, which are like, you know, scheduling stuff, and just more generic, it's really good. So it's, I think it's a very good writer, and it is it makes far fewer mistakes, like it doesn't, like, send emails that I probably wouldn't want it to send. Like, it's a little bit more careful.”
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