GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it

Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by patrickhogan1 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @08:38PM (#44851754)

I agree here but also believe it was a way to expose better models to the masses. o3 was so spectacularly good. But a lot of people were still not using it. Even some of my friends who use ChatGPT daily I would say are you using o3 and get a blank stare.

So I think it’s also a way to push reasoning models to the masses. Which increases OpenAI’s cost.

But due to the routing layer definitely cost cutting for power users (most of HN)… except power users can learn to force it to use the reasoning model.

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Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by atonse on Saturday August 09, 2025 @08:59PM (#44851889)

Honestly as a daily (pro) user of ChatGPT, I didn’t even know o3 was the best, I thought 4o incorporated it (hence the o)

I remember reading that 4o was the best general purpose one, and that o3 was only good for deeper stuff like deep research.

The crappy naming never helped.

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Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by p1esk on Saturday August 09, 2025 @09:25PM (#44852010)

Wait, you decided to pay $200 a month and you didn’t know that o3 was better than 4o?

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Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by atonse on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @10:31AM (#44876693)

Oops I pay $20/month. Not the $200 pro. With Claude, Pro is the $19/mo plan. And Max is the $100-$200/month plan. Naming confusion.

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Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by Workaccount2 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @09:51PM (#44852144)

The poor context length of O3 really cripples it.

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Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's n... by mikert89 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @08:58PM (#44851880)

They are clearly building the product for mass adoption, not power users

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