Yeah, I spent a ton of time yesterday comparing o3, 4.5, 5, 5 thinking, and 5 pro, and... 5 seems to underperform across the board? o3 is better than 5 thinking, o3 pro is better than 5 pro, 4.5 is better than 5, and overall 5 just seems underwhelming.
When I think back to the delta between 3 and 3.5, and the delta between 3.5 and 4, and the delta between 4 and 4.5... this makes it seem like the wall is real and OpenAI has topped out.
Yes, I often find all the retro stuff really cool and it's nice what was done with such little hardware, back in the days, but do we really need that? I doubt it. Yes, save the fundamentals, save part of the history, but not everything
Once Arm and battery life shift occurs with Linux and Windows, they'll (ie. Apple) be on the front foot again with something new, that's the beauty of competition.
This is going to change once Arm on Linux becomes a thing with Qualcomm's new jazz. I am mostly tethered to a dock with multiple screens. I have been driving Ubuntu now for over 4 years full time for work.
Too many applications end up reinventing TCP or SCTP in user-space. Also, network-level QoS applied to unrecognized UDP protocols typically means it gets throttled before TCP. Use UDP when nothing else will work, when the use-case doesn't need a persistent connection, and when no other messaging or transport library is suitable.