It’s rare for a tech titan to show any weakness or humanity. Yet even OpenAI’s notoriously understated CEO Sam Altman had to admit this week that the rollout of the company’s new GPT-5 Large Language Model was a complete disaster.

“We totally screwed up,” Altman admitted in an interview with The Verge.

I agree. As a former OpenAI Beta tester—and someone who currently spends over $1,000 per month on OpenAI’s API—I’ve eagerly anticipated the launch of GPT-5 for over a year.

When it finally arrived, though, the model was a mess. In contrast to the company’s previous GPT-4 series of models, GPT-5’s responses feel leaden, cursory, and boring. The new model also makes dumb mistakes on simple tasks and generates shortened answers to many queries.

Why is GPT-5 so awful? It’s possible that Open

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