Freebie Friday 🤩 We are introducing GPT‑5, our best AI system yet. GPT‑5 is a significant leap in intelligence over all our previous models, featuring state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, health, visual perception, and more. It is a unified system that knows when to respond quickly and when to think longer to provide expert-level responses. GPT‑5 is available to all users, with Plus subscribers getting more usage, and Pro subscribers getting access to GPT‑5 pro, a version with extended reasoning for even more comprehensive and accurate answers. GPT-5 Broke Everything That Was Working After half a day of testing what was supposed to be the "revolutionary leap forward," I'm watching my workflows collapse in real-time. The breakdown is stark: • Model selection gutted. You now get 3 options instead of the full range. No more choosing the right tool for the task. • Instructions that worked for months? Dead. My production frameworks now confuse it - especially in "thinking mode." It apologizes, then repeats the exact same errors. • It's literally GPT-4o in disguise. Using GPT-5 for content creation - it has the same choppy structures as 4o. Same flow issues and slop patterns. No way to use 4.1 or 4.5, my preferred tools. • Network crashes. Three "connection lost" errors in 12 hours. Not my internet - their new internal 'routing' system. • Tools fail, then it gaslights you. Python execution breaks, then it either lies about why or claims it "isn't capable" of tasks it just attempted (even though it is). • Even image generation seems to have got worse. The trillion-dollar question: Are we watching the rocket run out of fuel while everyone's still selling tickets to Mars? Sure, it is early days for GPT-5 and perhaps it will improve rapidly. But, for the first time, I'm wondering if the skeptics were right about the wall.