Is GPT-5 a Coding Powerhouse or Maintainability Nightmare?

It’s been a few weeks since OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5, was released to mixed reviews — with one prominent frontend developer even doing a 180 and completely changing their tune within days. But now that developers have had time to put the new model through its paces, we can better determine whether GPT-5 “excels at frontend coding,” as OpenAI claimed.

I reached out to OpenAI with a series of questions based around frontend development. Ishaan Singal, a researcher at OpenAI, responded by email. Singal, who has previously worked as…