7th August 2025 I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks, and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s my new favorite model. It’s still an LLM—it’s not a dramatic departure from what we’ve had before—but it rarely screws up and generally feels competent or occasionally impressive at the kinds of things I like to use models for. I’ve collected a lot of notes over the past two weeks, so I’ve decided to break them up into a series of posts. This first one ...