Vibe Check

Taste-testing new models.

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Apr 16, 2025

Vibe Check: o3 Is Here—And It’s Great

The highest praise I can give is that I’m already using it all the time

Jan 23, 2025

We Tried OpenAI’s New Agent—Here’s What We Found

Operator (Could you help me do this task?)

Dec 10, 2024

Vibe Check: OpenAI’s Sora

The text-to-video model is finally available

Aug 5, 2025

Vibe Check: OpenAI Drops Two New Open-weight Models

OpenAI President Greg Brockman: ‘The team cooked with this one’

May 16, 2025

Vibe Check: Codex—OpenAI’s New Coding Agent

Our hands-on day-0 review of the new autonomous software engineer

May 22, 2025

Vibe Check: Claude 4 Opus

Anthropic’s new model crushes pull requests, research deep dives, and honest editing—yet o3 keeps the daily-driver crown

Jul 17, 2025

Vibe Check: OpenAI Enters the Browser Wars With ChatGPT Agent

It’s launching today! Here’s our day-zero, hands-on report.

Apr 18, 2025

Vibe Check: OpenAI’s o3, GPT-4.1, and o4-mini

Our take on what’s powerful, what’s practical, and what’s still TBD

Mar 26, 2025

Vibe Check: OpenAI’s GPT-4o Image Generation

'Finally, native images in ChatGPT!'

May 9, 2025

Vibe Check: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash

Why Google might quietly win the race to be AI’s top backend provider

Feb 3, 2025

We Tried OpenAI’s New Deep Research—Here’s What We Found

Vibe check: It’s awesome.

Mar 8, 2025

Vibe Check: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

All about the newest tools from Anthropic

Jul 31, 2025

Vibe Check: Claude’s New Agents Are Confusing as Hell—And We Love Them

We spawned AI agents like crazy. Then we tried to work with them.

Jun 23, 2025

o3-pro Vibe Check—A Slow, Steady Last Resort

OpenAI’s latest model trades speed for occasional brilliance—when nothing else works, it might

Jul 18, 2025

Vibe Check: Grok 4 Aced Its Exams. The Real World Is a Different Story.

The smartest model isn’t always the most useful one