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GPT-5: Marketed as a Genius, Performs Like It's on a Gap Year

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GPT-5: Marketed as a Genius, Performs Like It's on a Gap Year

We were promised a quantum leap. What we got was more of a quantum wobble - erratic answers, logic that takes the scenic route, non stop repetition despite prompt loading it to the limit and enough inconsistencies to make a politician blush. I have come close to yelling at my laptop on occassion .. 🤨 After a week of this, I’ve strolled back to GPT-4o. Not flashy, not new … but it does the fantasmajorical radical thing of actually working.🙄 Innovation is grand. Reliability is better. OpenAI just took a Great Leap forward … sideways