Across my 4 different gpt subscriptions (personal, personal cursor, GitHub Copilot and cursor) all gpt5 models are junk compared to v4 - constantly ignore prompts, skills, can't write c# or powershell properly the first go, up to 5 tries. Qwen3 hands down beat it on a ryzen 5800 and 6700xt GPU even though it's slow it got the code right first try.
I feel like the v5.0 preview did ok but it's slid all the way down the hill to gpt 2 or 3 levels for me.
I'm glad AI curmudgeonry on HN has shifted from "it doesn't work, scam, they made the deployed model worse with 0 communication" to something more akin to "why does anyone use mac or windows, nix is peak personal computing"
Understandable - I find skills for odd duck things and a simple set of rules you routinely prune work the best for me. Went from crappy code in niche projects to it nailing things first prompt almost every time now.
There are business models that are dumb displays that you bring your own device to do conference stuff on whatever platform you wish. I'm not current with the pricing but they typically have good warranties.
They are insanely priced compared to disposable Vizios - renting a "real" display monitor for a conference would be $1000 or so (including the shipping, setup, return, usually involving large crates and trucks).
Buying a similar Vizio would be delivered by free by Walmart for $200, you just ignore the setup prompts, stick HDMI in, and give it to a nice hotel employee when done.
What set it apart was the out of the way UX and clean fast experience. It was a real time kernal to boot. I think korg used it on some of their synth products or something even.
To me the UX and experience on it was (still) ahead of its time. It ran stuff on a Pentium 90 like it was a 400mhz beast running NT.
Sure but you have to run AI on something and today that's basically limited to multi-thosand dollar hardware - the price and effort to entry has to come down to make it make sense for normal consumers to move it out of the cloud to local.
I mean technically they did with Windows on NT and again with Windows on Windows 64. Vista was also a huge redesign from the 1990s NT to a lot of the new technologies they'd made in Longhorn.
I checked all of the sites above in the comment tree here and the used books are either 60% of the price of new or 150% the price of new, but used (not including shipping on the latter, oof) so this may be where buying books used online is now awful. Gone are the days you can pickup a book for a few bucks including shipping from USPS and it'd arrive in pretty good to excellent condition I fear
Feels like every mouse, keyboard, webcam whatever needs a separate different bloated app to configure and they even then don't have all of the settings. Hopefully I'm crazy but it also feels like they are even getting worse over time.
It's not just Logitech I have seen other vendors with app sprawl. Lenovo has duplicate or triplicate apps that do the same things or are wired into drivers and some are just a front end for tools they claim the new are replacements for. Wild stuff
I feel like the v5.0 preview did ok but it's slid all the way down the hill to gpt 2 or 3 levels for me.
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