From da004fdd95e57386fb5d6a11b8d0f3464abf1d87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Ettinger <anthony@chovy.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 19:03:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Fix Autoblog OpenAI fallback by using a valid default
 text model (#30)"

This reverts commit 2a9e5fea8298bb644947d3ebc053a43b42ebaf5c.
---
 .env.example                          |  2 +-
 lib/env.ts                            |  2 +-
 tests/contract/env-backend-ai.test.ts | 21 ---------------------
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 tests/contract/env-backend-ai.test.ts

diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 7f398e7d..0c17e4c1 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ CRON_SECRET=change-me-to-a-long-random-string
 #   openai = prefer OPENAI_API_KEY, fall back to Anthropic if needed
 #   anthropic = prefer ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, fall back to OpenAI if needed
 BACKEND_AI_PROVIDER=openai
-BACKEND_AI_OPENAI_MODEL=gpt-5-mini
+BACKEND_AI_OPENAI_MODEL=gpt-5.5
 ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=
 OPENAI_API_KEY=
 GEMINI_API_KEY=
diff --git a/lib/env.ts b/lib/env.ts
index c1b9dbd2..3e5ccafa 100644
--- a/lib/env.ts
+++ b/lib/env.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export const env = {
   backendAiProvider:
     process.env.BACKEND_AI_PROVIDER ?? process.env.AI_TEXT_PROVIDER ?? "openai",
   backendAiOpenaiModel:
-    process.env.BACKEND_AI_OPENAI_MODEL ?? "gpt-5-mini",
+    process.env.BACKEND_AI_OPENAI_MODEL ?? "gpt-5.5",
   anthropicApiKey: process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY ?? "",
   openaiApiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY ?? "",
   geminiApiKey: process.env.GEMINI_API_KEY ?? "",
diff --git a/tests/contract/env-backend-ai.test.ts b/tests/contract/env-backend-ai.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 779063f5..00000000
--- a/tests/contract/env-backend-ai.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-
-const originalBackendAiOpenaiModel = process.env.BACKEND_AI_OPENAI_MODEL;
-
-afterEach(() => {
-  vi.resetModules();
-  if (originalBackendAiOpenaiModel === undefined) {
-    delete process.env.BACKEND_AI_OPENAI_MODEL;
-    return;
-  }
-  process.env.BACKEND_AI_OPENAI_MODEL = originalBackendAiOpenaiModel;
-});
-
-describe("backend ai env defaults", () => {
-  it("defaults OpenAI Autoblog model to gpt-5-mini", async () => {
-    delete process.env.BACKEND_AI_OPENAI_MODEL;
-    vi.resetModules();
-    const { env } = await import("@/lib/env");
-    expect(env.backendAiOpenaiModel).toBe("gpt-5-mini");
-  });
-});