This post isn’t really about GPT-5. Sure, it launched and people are somewhat disappointed. It’s the why that bugs me.

They expected AGI, the AI god, but instead got merely the best model in the world. v disapointng

A few days before the GPT-5 launch I read this paper, Agentic Web: Weaving the Next Web with AI Agents. It’s not my normal kind of paper, it’s not very academic. There’s no math in it, no architecture. It just paints a picture of the future.

And that’s the lens I saw GPT-5 through.

The paper describes three eras of the internet:

  • PC Era — Wikipedia, Craig’s List, etc.; users actively seek information
  • Mobile/Social Era — Tik Tok, Insta, etc.; content is pushed via recommendation algorithms
  • Agentic Web — user merely expresses intent

image of 3 internets, I'll explain below

When I weigh the strengths of...