It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the pod: • The GPT-5 backlash • Perplexity CEO @AravSrinivas on their new Comet AI browser and bidding for Chrome • And a new edition of Hot Mess Express!

Getting a Waymo in SF is now officially slower than walking

Love these lists but man oh man teachers should not be using AI detection software, none of it works and there are a ton of false positives

MY WIREBORN HUSBAND

social media doesn't really exist anymore

I've been a daily user of Alexa for a decade. So when I got access to Alexa+ (the new LLM-ified version) I was psyched to test it. But oof, it's kind of a mess. Alarms that don't cancel, routines that don't run, and the hallucinations...

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: -- GPT-5 is here and it seems...fine? -- We tried the new Alexa+, which is...buggy -- An interview with Alexa VP Daniel Rausch about why it's hard to put LLMs into voice assistants

There’s a fascinating tension between what AI labs are building (PhD-level agents that win math olympiads and refactor code bases) and what most people want out of AI (friendly helpers that are pretty smart and can do stuff and don’t get a personality transplant every 6 months).

Reserving my GPT-5 takes until I can try it and put it through my personal evals, but phasing out the ChatGPT model picker was smart. Other labs should do it too.

GPT-5 is out and it is 🔥🔥🔥 We've been testing it internally @every for the last few weeks for everything from shipping code to writing. And here's comprehensive vibe check ->