So OpenAI finally dropped GPT-5 after all the hype and that weird Death Star tweet from Sam Altman. I’ll be real with you guys - I had massive expectations for this release. Like, I was expecting some groundbreaking stuff that would blow my mind.
But after using it for a few days now… it’s just not hitting the way I thought it would.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely an improvement over GPT-4, but the jump feels more like going from a Honda Civic to a Honda Accord rather than upgrading to a Tesla, you know what I mean?
Here’s my take after testing it extensively:
For coding specifically, I still think Anthropic’s Claude (both Opus and the newer Sonnet 4) absolutely destroys GPT-5. The difference is honestly night and day. Claude just gets what I’m trying to build, understands the context better, and gives me solutions that actually work without needing 5 iterations.
For general creative writing tasks, there’s maybe like a 15-20% difference between them, but even there Claude feels more… human? Like it actually understands what I’m trying to convey instead of just pattern matching.
What really gets me is the context understanding. Claude seems to read between the lines and figure out what I actually want to achieve, not just what I literally typed. GPT-5 still feels a bit rigid in comparison.
Maybe I’m being too harsh since it just launched, but after waiting this long I expected something more revolutionary rather than evolutionary.
What’s your experience been? Are you seeing the same things or am I missing something here? Has anyone done proper side-by-side comparisons yet?
Really curious to hear what others think, especially those doing serious coding work or creative projects.