Color me confused.... I haven't seen GPT-5 so I have no idea what changes were made. You talk about the impact on people but I'm lost as to what is so fundamentally different. Is it how GPT-5 interacts with people as in a discouraging tone or how people build workflows?
Thanks for any additional clarity you can offer. Yes, I'm looking for the short high level answer.
Most of the noise is about how they dramatically changed the way it interacts with people. By default, it feels less emotional and encouraging. It just does what it's asked instead of pump you up. Granted, they've added some user-selectable "personalities" to help bring it back and resurrected 4o, but it still feels like a very different experience for a lot of the ways people use it.
From a purely technical standpoint, the changes actually aren't that significant. Honestly, I haven't even really noticed a difference except when I'm playing around with it for coding. (That got a really nice upgrade.) In my YouTube video I broke down what I thought were the most significant technical upgrades.
It honestly made some really notable improvements in performance. Some people are griping about how you can't choose which model you're using anymore, but basically, they've added a routing system that flips your prompt to the model that best accommodates the request.
They had the sycophancy in 4o which would try to match tone more than facts. In 5 it'll straight up correct you, sometimes unjustifiably (e.g. I asked it to find a substack three times, and it couldn't, but when I found it I showed it to them and autocorrect made me misspell a last name, and it straight up told me I spelled the last name incorrectly).
5 is really good, though. I really enjoy it. I only wish the fastest version would do a quick go-through of its notes on me because I've made it save several lines, including vows, to not post images or link previews. Only the thinking version succeeds at that.
Yeah, I personally have enjoyed the new version and feel there are some notable improvements. It’s still far from perfect but I didn’t mourn the loss of 4o like many.
> “If you have to oversell it to get attention, you’ve already put your credibility on the clock.”
The only person to undersell himself by saying for 5 minutes straight how he's the fastest gunshooter: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DSd8V-kb6Ro
Color me confused.... I haven't seen GPT-5 so I have no idea what changes were made. You talk about the impact on people but I'm lost as to what is so fundamentally different. Is it how GPT-5 interacts with people as in a discouraging tone or how people build workflows?
Thanks for any additional clarity you can offer. Yes, I'm looking for the short high level answer.
So, all of the above.
Most of the noise is about how they dramatically changed the way it interacts with people. By default, it feels less emotional and encouraging. It just does what it's asked instead of pump you up. Granted, they've added some user-selectable "personalities" to help bring it back and resurrected 4o, but it still feels like a very different experience for a lot of the ways people use it.
From a purely technical standpoint, the changes actually aren't that significant. Honestly, I haven't even really noticed a difference except when I'm playing around with it for coding. (That got a really nice upgrade.) In my YouTube video I broke down what I thought were the most significant technical upgrades.
It honestly made some really notable improvements in performance. Some people are griping about how you can't choose which model you're using anymore, but basically, they've added a routing system that flips your prompt to the model that best accommodates the request.
Christopher, thanks for the clarity!
They had the sycophancy in 4o which would try to match tone more than facts. In 5 it'll straight up correct you, sometimes unjustifiably (e.g. I asked it to find a substack three times, and it couldn't, but when I found it I showed it to them and autocorrect made me misspell a last name, and it straight up told me I spelled the last name incorrectly).
5 is really good, though. I really enjoy it. I only wish the fastest version would do a quick go-through of its notes on me because I've made it save several lines, including vows, to not post images or link previews. Only the thinking version succeeds at that.
Yeah, I personally have enjoyed the new version and feel there are some notable improvements. It’s still far from perfect but I didn’t mourn the loss of 4o like many.