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Software developer, here. (No, not a "vibe coder." I actually know how to read and write my own code and what it does.)
Just had the opportunity to test GPT 5 as a coding assistant in Copilot for VS Code, which in my opinion is the only legitimately useful purpose for LLMs. (No, not to write everything for me, just to do some of the more tedious tasks faster.) The IDE itself can help keep them in line, because it detects when they screw up. Which is all the time, due to their nature. Even recent and relatively "good" models like Sonnet need constant babysitting.
GPT 5 failed spectacularly. So badly, in fact, that I'm glad I only set it to analysis tasks and not to any write tasks. I will not be using it for anything else any time soon.
Not 5 minutes ago I asked gpt5 how to go back to gpt-4o.
GPT5 was spitting out some strange bs for simple coding prompts that 4o handles well.