OpenAI’s new chatbot tool, GPT-5 has been designed to help software engineers with coding, technical reasoning and other tasks, but it has so far been something of a mixed bag according to developers.
While the tool is relatively cost-effective, competitors such as Anthropic’s Claude Code, Opus and Sonnet, are still considered to be better at producing code.
Further, there are criticisms that OpenAI’s measurements for GPT-5’s performance are misleading and that the model can be too “elaborative”, producing unnecessary lines of code.
Nonetheless, GPT-5 has been praised for its ability to complete complex coding tasks in one shot and for its abilities with technical problems, making it a mixed, but ultimately positive, addition to the world of AI.
