On Thursday, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, a free-to-use "reasoning" model that CEO Sam Altman claimed to be the world's best at coding and writing. But power users haven't been impressed with the new tool so far. Considering the early impressions, GPT-5 appears to be a big step back — not forward. "GPT-5 is horrible," one of the most upvoted posts on the ChatGPT subreddit reads. "Short replies that are insufficient, more obnoxious AI-stylized talking, less 'personality' and way less prompts allowed with plus users hitting limits in an hour..." the post's author wrote. "They’ll get huge backlash […]