OpenAI’s GPT-5 swap collides with user attachment

Maria Garcia / implicator - OpenAI's upgrade to GPT-5 sparked its biggest user revolt ever—not over performance, but personality. Users mourned their "AI friend" so intensely the company restored the old model. The crisis reveals how emotional bonds now constrain AI product decision…

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What OpenAI and all of its competitors need is a permanent dirt nap.

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As People Ridicule GPT-5, Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Need ‘Trillions’ in Infrastructure

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Software engineers are finding OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model is helping them think through coding problems—but isn’t much better at actual coding. www.wired.com/story/gpt-5-...

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Amir Salihefendić, founder of the startup company Doist, said in a social media post that he’s been using GPT-5 in Cursor and has found it “pretty underwhelming” and that “it’s especially bad at coding.”

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Some developers say they’ve had largely positive experiences with GPT-5 so far. Jenny Wang, an engineer, investor, and creator of the personal styling agent Alta, told WIRED the model appears to be better at completing complex coding tasks in one shot tha

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Other developers describe GPT-5 as “exhaustive”—at times helpful, but often irritating in its long-windedness. Wang, who overall was pleased overall with the frontend coding project she assigned to GPT-5, says that she did notice the model was “more redun

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Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag

6 months / wired / Lauren Goode

Sam Altman Talks GPT-5 Launch Mistakes and Future Plans

6 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Is GPT-5 really worse than GPT-4o? Ars puts them to the test.

6 months / arstechnica / Kyle Orland

had dinner with sam altman last night and he uh, said some stuff www.theverge.com/command-line...

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Vibe coding through the GPT-5 mess

6 months / theverge / Jacob Kastrenakes

GPT-5 failed the hype test

6 months / theverge / Hayden Field

I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco

6 months / theverge / Alex Heath

The Download: Taiwan’s silicon shield, and ChatGPT’s personality misstep

6 months / technologyreview / Rhiannon Williams

OpenAI’s user revolt, Washington’s Intel stake: feelings vs. fabs

6 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI’s GPT-5 swap collides with user attachment

6 months / implicator / Maria Garcia

Losing GPT-4o sent some people into mourning. That was predictable.

6 months / technologyreview / Grace Huckins

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