GPT-5 Is Here! The Bottleneck Is You

If you think OpenAI's latest release is lackluster, you're missing the point

(TL;DR? Scroll to the very bottom for a summary.)

GPT-5 finally arrived last week, just two days after OpenAI released its strongest-to-date models as open weight models (dubbed gpt-oss — yes, lower caps). That's a lot of news for just one week.

Or is it?

If the marketing hype had you on the edge of your seat, when GPT-5 finally showed up, the bang you wer…