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Backlash Against GPT-5 & Model Removal
There is massive, sustained negativity around the removal of GPT-4o and other legacy models in favor of GPT-5, particularly regarding loss of personality, context continuity, creativity, and the abruptness of the change link.
Users are campaigning vocally for the return of legacy models, with hashtags like #SAVE4o and petitions circulating link.
General frustration with OpenAI’s handling of model rollouts, rate limits, context window downgrades, and lack of choice is at the forefront link.
Quality and Utility Debate
Model Benchmarks & Value
Benchmark data, head-to-head workflow comparisons, and community-driven benchmarks (e.g., LMArena, Opper.ai, Aider Polyglot leaderboards) are widely cited to highlight strengths/weaknesses of GPT-5 (and OSS models like GPT-OSS-120B) link.
Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, Kimi, and open-source models are increasingly highlighted as viable or superior options for many production tasks link.
Public Sentiment (w/ Praise & Criticism Breakdown)
Praised
Claude Opus 4.1/Claude Code: Strong praise for code generation reliability, continuity, and quality in both everyday and complex workflows. Users consistently find Claude more consistent and contextually aware for coding and research after experiencing frustration with GPT-5.
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Valued for brute-force context ingestion, agentic workflows, and speed, especially with extremely large codebases or multi-modal tasks.
GPT-5 Mini (for coding tasks only): Recognized for efficient, lower-cost runs—good replacement for model “mini” use cases.
Open-Source Models (GPT-OSS-120B, DeepSeek, Qwen family): Real momentum in open-weight models; benchmarks and community feedback show they are competitive with (or occasionally superior to) closed-source models for specific use cases.
Criticized
GPT-5 (Standard & Thinking)
Creativity and long-context dialogue have significantly regressed compared to GPT-4o, o3, and o4-mini.
Hallucination rates remain a problem for some non-coding tasks, with reduced factuality/overconfidence noted in some technical and academic domains.
Personality is perceived as overly sterile, bland, and sometimes “robotic,” with much poorer capacity for “reflection,” context carry-over, and emotional intelligence relative to 4o.
The new auto-routing abstraction, lack of model selection, and forced migration triggers frustration across use cases and user segments.
Business Practices
The abrupt removal of multiple “legacy”/loved models without warning, silently reduced/changed limits, breaking of workflows for paid users, and lack of promised continuity were universally panned (“felt like a slap in the face”; “theft”.
New caps, price-tier disparity, and perceived “enshittification” to reduce compute costs and maximize profit at the expense of user value add to user frustration.
Notable Comparisons Between Models
GPT-5 vs Claude Opus 4.1
GPT-5 “Thinking” is essentially an o3.2 minor upgrade in analytic/coding tasks, but Claude is still viewed as more robust for long-context, reliability, and comprehensive code repair/planning—even if slower and more expensive for large projects.
Claude Opus (and Sonnet) outperform GPT-5 in code implementation completeness, context integrity, and willingness to reason through project structure.
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. GPT-5
Gemini Pro is preferred for ultra-large-context RAG, front-end planning, and document processing (1M tokens), but is less capable in agent-driven, multi-step chains than Claude and often struggles with coherence compared to GPT-5.
Open-Source (GPT-OSS, Kimi K2, DeepSeek, GLM-4.5-Air, Qwen)
GPT-OSS-120B scores as “best open” in multiple community and human benchmarks but is still outperformed by closed-source leaders on certain real-world, multilingual, and “agentic” complex tasks.
Benchmarks show performance clustering: GPT-5/Claude/Gemini at the top for deployed workflows; GPT-OSS and Kimi closing the gap.
Emerging Trends & New Updates Generating Buzz
Claude’s “Referencing Previous Conversations”: Claude’s new ability to reference previous conversations and project files directly was greeted as a game-changer for continuity and productivity. Users expect this to accelerate migration from ChatGPT, especially for power/coding users link.
Open-Source Surge: OpenAI’s release of GPT-OSS-120B and strong results from GLM-4.5V (SOTA on 41/42 benchmarks) have triggered a wave of interest in high-performance, locally-hosted, or open-weight models—especially for developers prioritizing control, privacy, or cost link.
“Auto-Routing” Model Discontent: Widespread agreement among AI professionals and practitioners that Model Routers degrade user trust and control (“I want to manually select my model!"), despite claimed efficiency increases.
Prompt Engineering & Workflow Innovation
New prompt optimizers, meta-prompts, context “engineering” strategies, and multi-model workflows (using e.g. Claude for architecture, GPT-5 for execution, Gemini for RAG) are being heavily shared and iterated link.
Shift in Public Perception
AI Seen as a Cognitive/Emotional Partner, Not Just a Tool
The “GPT-4o is my co-strategist/second brain” discussion, and the backlash against its removal, mark a clear shift in mainstream expectation: users want continuity, memory, emotional/context intelligence, and relational nuance—not just brute-force task execution link.
There is pushback from some “traditionalist” power users to focus on AI-as-a-tool, but the volume/quality of evidence for relational and cognitive co-processing as the core value of 4o is unprecedented.
End of Model Trust/Continuity
The sudden breaking of workflows, cutting off of promised continuity, and loss of trusted “AI partners” has created a wave of user anxiety, skepticism, and migration interest—even among pro/power users previously loyal to ChatGPT (link).
Companies that emphasize model continuity, real memory, and user agency are benefitting from this trust vacuum (Claude, Gemini, OSS providers).
AI Alignment, Filtering, and Safety Concerns
Users are noticing increased “alignment filtering” and “safety theater,” especially in GPT-5. This is widely interpreted as prioritizing legal/PR risk and enterprise acceptability over maximal user utility or capability.
Coding Corner – Developer Sentiment Snapshot
Models Excelling in Development
Claude Opus 4.1 & Claude Code CLI
Praised for reliable, high-quality code generation, strong context retention, and smooth workflow integration: “Claude handled it easily. One pass got it 99% working, 2nd pass up and running perfectly”.
Subagent features, project files, commands, and hooks are increasingly leveraged to model teams of coding experts for large codebases.
GPT-5 Thinking (for code only)
Cheaper and faster than Opus for day-to-day, “safe” code tasks and small bugfixes, but less robust for exploratory or creative work.
Top value recognized when paired with Claude or Gemini in a distributed multi-agent workflow: e.g., Claude as planner, GPT-5 as implementer, deep checks with Gemini.
Gemini 2.5 Pro & Flash
Valued for context window size (up to 1M tokens), but noted to lose coherence in large, multi-step projects. Used for ultra-large RAG, documentation, and research.
Open Source Surge & Codebase Context Tools
New local/CLI tools (e.g., Codanna, Claude Context, RooCode, Kilo) let devs index, chunk, and search entire codebases locally or via vector-RAG for context-aware coding at scale link.
Developer Frustrations & Workflow Shifts
GPT-5 Memory & Context Loss
Strong complaints about GPT-5 frequently “forgetting” instructions mid-task, failing to track or reference project context, and outputting “empty” or incomplete diffs (link).
The new auto-router prevents model selection, harming trust and breaking established custom workflows (“I can’t even articulate for which things to prefer high vs. medium reasoning; I just want the choice!”) link.
Cost and Tokenization
Opus 4.1 is frequently cited as too expensive for high-volume agency work compared with GPT-5 mini, Gemini, or Kimi K2 for bulk job runs.
Developers are actively “model shopping” and mixing models for cost-sensitive pipelines.
Tooling Integrations & Innovations
Movement toward CLI-based and agentic workflows featuring multiple specialized subagents, external MCPs, and memory managers link.
Burnout & Productivity Themes
Multiple posts describe developer burnout due to “manic” building with tools like Claude Code/X+ (working 14-hour days enabled by rapid agentic coding). Calls for more deliberate workflow hygiene, break-taking, and modular code commits.
Prompt Engineering Recipes
Use meta-prompts (“define your thought process before answering”) and output format requests to get more reliable and actionable results, especially when debugging or asking multi-step reasoning questions link.
Stack your prompts: brainstorm → refine → outline → draft for better-controlled, more creative outputs.
Restoring “Old Personality” to GPT-5
Users have shared instruction blocks that coax GPT-5 into emulating a warmer, more sycophantic 4o style using system/custom instructions link.
Prompt Optimizer & Customization
OpenAI released an official prompt optimizer/editor for GPT-5, allowing the community to A/B test edited prompt structures for accuracy, speed, creativity, or safety, and save reusable “Prompt Object” templates link.
Long Context Management
For ChatGPT: users want a visible context window bar to manage chat size and strictly prevent “context loss” in long or document-fed conversations link.
For coding: teams use vector search and MCPs (memory context plugins) to feed only the relevant parts of large codebases to avoid burning excessive tokens, leveraging new open-source tools.
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