With the exception of GPT-5, which was a significant advance yet because it was slightly less sycophantic than gpt-4o the internet decided it was terrible for the first few days.

"No LLM has ever been as good as people said it was."

The reason for this is because LLM companies have tuned their models to aggressively blow smoke up their users' asses.

These "tools" are designed to aggressively exploit human confirmation bias, so as to prevent the user from identifying their innumerable inadequacies.

There are 8 Google news articles in the top 15 articles on the HN front page right now.

Google being able to skip ahead of every other AI company is wild. They just sat back and watched, then decided it was time to body the competition.

The DOJ really should break up Google [1]. They have too many incumbent advantages that were already abuse of monopoly power.

[1] https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/ - call your reps and tell them!