I was trying to plan for some data analysis. Tried it few times with GPT5 Pro, it failed almost every time. It only succeeded once. While I didn’t had any issue with Thinking model.

I’m writing a research paper and it’s hard to get GPT5 to give me relevant related papers that actually exist.

Try search mode?

If a user has to manually select a search mode… is the AI really doing any “thinking”?

Genuine question. I realize they aren’t currently claiming AGI. Having to manually specify a mode seems like a non sequitur to me.