Depending on your perspective, this is good news! Both for me personally, as someone trying to make money leveraging LLM capabilities while they're too stupid to solve the whole problem, and for people worried that a quick transition to an AI-controlled economy would present moral hazards.

This really resonated with me. It's ironic that if you're developing an AI-powered app you need to worry about both a) AI not being good enough to allow you to achieve your product goals and b) AI getting so good that all your work ends up being redundant.

I wrote up some more detailed thoughts about the GPT-5 launch and its implications for developers at GPT-5 Didn't Live Up to the Hype—But Maybe That's a Good Thing.