Waited 2 years and 5 months for GPT-5. First take: it wasn’t mindblowing. I played with it, then digested the flood of GPT-5 blog posts from the lucky early-access crowd. When I asked GPT-5 what it can do now that it couldn’t before, it said: “Ship more real stuff for you, faster.” That’s quite fair. The headline here is cost-effective intelligence for the masses. OpenAI merged its standard and reasoning models into one, letting GPT-5 decide when to think harder. It’s faster, more reliable, and cheap enough for free users, which means: - Millions will try a “thinking” model for the first time - Hallucinations are way down - Intelligence is now priced to run at scale Some really cool things about GPT-5: - It’s not one model, it’s a brain that swaps between its own versions for the task at hand, slipping in useful extras you didn’t even request. It reduces the burden of thinking and can better guess what you want, even with a lazy prompt. A bit like an overly eager coworker who keeps offering help while you’re trying to focus. - Coding is god-tier. It’s the best software engineering model on the planet. Builds complex apps in one shot, fixes gnarly bugs in huge codebases. This is probably where all the magic will happen. I need to try more vibe coding with GPT-5 next. - But not so much for writing, it’s probably still behind DeepSeek R1 or GPT 4.5. - Parallel tool use. Can juggle multiple things at once over longer timeframes with almost no latency. Knows exactly which “friend” to call for each task. @sama says he's making tweaks so hoping to see GPT-5 get better for doing even more things