I've just watched our new lord and saviour, GPT-5 in agent mode, enter a death loop of frustration. I asked it to find an image online. Ostensibly an easy task.

I've just watched our new lord and saviour, GPT-5 in agent mode, enter a death loop of frustration. I asked it to find an image online. Ostensibly an easy task... First it spent three minutes getting fucked by cookie banners, then it ddossed Wikipedia by guessing article names, then it started searching for stock photo sites offering an API, then it hallucinated a python script to search stock photography vaguely related to what i wanted. This failed as well, so it called its image generator and finally served me some made up AI slop. Ten minutes, kilowatts of GPU power, and jack shit in return. So not even the shiny new tools are up to the task.