Nah you're all wrong, GPT-5 is a leap I'm 100% doubling down here I didn't want to post too fast and regret it again, but it just solved a bunch of very, very hard debugging prompts that were previously unsolved (by AI), and then designed a gorgeous pixelated Gameboy game with a level of detail and quality that is clearly beyond anything else I've ever seen. There is no way this model is bad. I think you're all traumatized of benchmaxxers, and over-compensating against a model that is actually good. I also think you're underestimating gpt-oss's strengths (but yeah my last post was rushed) I still don't know if it is usable for serious programming though (o3 wasn't), but it seems so? A coding model as reliable as Opus, yet smarter than o3, would completely change my workflow. Opus doesn't need thinking to be great though, so, that might weight in its favor. For what it is worth, I only really used 3 models: - Opus 4.1 for coding - Gemini 2.5 very rarely for coding when Opus fails - o3 for everything but coding

That said, ASCII not solved yet