Vibe Check

Taste-testing new models.

Sep 15, 2025

Vibe Check: GPT-5 Codex Can Code for 35 Minutes Straight—If You Ask Nicely

It launches today—here’s our day-zero vibe check

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

Nov 19, 2025

Vibe Check: Gemini 3 Pro, A Reliable Workhorse With Surprising Flair

After 24 hours of hands-on testing, we found a model that’s fast, reliable, and surprisingly funny—but still prone to overreaching and not yet a writing champ

Oct 15, 2025

Vibe Check: Anthropic Cooked on Claude Haiku 4.5

This one’s for the developers

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

Nov 25, 2025

The AI Browsers That Made It Into Our Daily Workflow

Switching browsers is a pain. Here are the ones that our team deemed worth it.

Dec 11, 2025

Vibe Check: GPT-5.2 Is an Incremental Upgrade

OpenAI's latest model update excels at instruction-following and extended tasks, but don't expect it to surprise you

Jan 13, 2026

Vibe Check: Claude Cowork Is Claude Code for the Rest of Us

The asynchronous, agentic workflow developers love is finally accessible to everyone—but the polish isn't there yet

Oct 16, 2025

OpenAI Made Video Creation Effortless—Here’s What Happened Next

Sora 2 removed every creative barrier, but our feeds tell a different story about human imagination

Aug 7, 2025

GPT-5

Our hands-on review of OpenAI’s newest model based on weeks of testing