The plan (often) takes longer than the execution ...

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There's a reason why yours truly doesn't work with OpenAI and, seen in the graphic above, is one reason why because it appears the demo for Chat GPT 5 has issues, lots of them, something akin to the company's push to make as much money as possible in the shortest amount of time, something Fred Brooks alluded to in The Mythical Man Month in stating the plan (often) takes longer than the execution and to rush the plan inevitably leads to errors.

In a livestream dedicated to the release, OpenAI tried to show off its newest large language model which CEO Sam Altman called a "significant step along the path to AGI"— but instead turned heads with some catastrophically dumb errors.

Across several examples, bar graphs intended to show off GPT-5's awesome performance benchmarks, while appearing professional-looking, turned out to be horribly inaccurate nonsense upon closer inspection.

The gaffes were flagged on social media and highlighted by The Verge. The most egregious example is a bar graph comparing coding benchmark scores for GPT-5 compared to older models. Somehow, the bar for GPT-5's score of 52.8 percent accuracy is nearly twice as tall as the bar for a score of 69.1 percent for the o3 model. Even more bafflingly, the 69.1 percent bar is the exact same size as another bar representing 30.8 percent for GPT-4o. Make it make sense!

And this ...

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GPT-5 Users Say It Seriously Sucks

"A disastrous first impression"

On Thursday, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, a free-to-use "reasoning" model that CEO Sam Altman claimed to be the world's best at coding and writing.

But power users have been strikingly underwhelmed with the new tool so far, raising questions about diminishing returns as the industry spends ever-increasing sums on talent and infrastructure.

"GPT-5 is horrible," one of the currently most upvoted posts on the ChatGPT subreddit reads.

The author seethed against "short replies that are insufficient, more obnoxious AI-stylized talking, less 'personality' and way less prompts allowed with plus users hitting limits in an hour" in the post. "They’ll get huge backlash after the release is complete."

Complicating matters greatly is that OpenAI has chosen to put all of its eggs in one basket, announcing that all other preceding models would be deprecated, a term the company uses when it's shutting down an obsolete model.

This is akin to Agent Orange stating there's a 1000%+ savings in store for drugs according to his plan to make it happen very, very soon. 

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Lehigh Valley International Airport, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, in Allentown, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Days after he sent letters instructing top pharmaceutical manufacturers to use a “most favored nation” pricing model for prescription drugs, President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that he had
cut costs by up to 1,500%.

But Trump’s grandiose claim is mathematically impossible.

Here’s a closer look at the facts.

TRUMP: “You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%.
I don’t mean 50%, I mean 14 — 1,500%.”