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I retested GPT-5's coding skills using OpenAI's guidance - and now I trust it even less

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Do AI's get headaches? Because GPT-5 has certainly been giving me one. This article was going to be so easy. OpenAI came out with a list of best practices for GPT-5 coding. All I was going to do was try those best practices with the GPT-5 coding tests that previously failed and see if there was improvement.

It seemed so simple.

Also: I tested GPT-5's coding skills, and it was so bad that I'm sticking with GPT-4o (for now)

But then I had a thought. What if OpenAI has improved GPT-5 in the week or so since I ran my tests?

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