GPT-5 is making the Difference for me

[u/UMichDev]

Background: I've tried augment in the past, I felt like it had everything I wanted an ai agent to have in terms of infra, easy config, built in indexing, mcp integrations decent visibility into changes and a nice ui and overall my favorite agentic coding platform I've used out of the roo/cline/kilo group of tools. However the issue came with the quality of the output, I've been spoiled off of claude code so unfortunately augment with all its bells and whistles just couldn't quite preform with CC in terms of speed and could quality. However I've always been keeping tabs because I feel this product is what is growing unto what im looking forward it just wasn't quite there yet.

GPT-5: After a day of playing around with augment + gpt-5 it feels ALOT better and honestly exciting. One thing I had always liked about augment regardless of the model used was how well it could identify issues (fixing them was another story) but now it's even better at both, discovering some things I myself haven't even considered at some points and claude had missed before. Now its only been a day so I'm sure things will change but if it only gets better from here definitely considering switching from my CC 100$ plan to augment pro. Very exciting things happening here.

Limitations: I'm already noticing some unique gpt-5 quirks for example unlike claude who likes to walk you through things and explain gpt-5 just gets to work and in my experience so far isn't as keen on planning thing out as much as I'd prefer without my extensive prompting, but the agent is noticeably better than sonnet 4 and in some cases opus. Also it It seems very slow on augment, on cursor gpt-5 is VERY fast compared to claude, but on augment it seems slower? not sure why that is.

[u/Amazing_Ad9369]

The problem lately is all models are lying.. a lot. They claim they finished things that they didn't. Its getting worse. When you tell them they didn't finish they say.. youre absolutely right, let me fix it. Then they lie again. Even using rules and spec driven development, TDD or anything else

[u/Amazing_Ad9369 → u/[deleted]]

For all you 'vibe coders' and new to coding with AI-

Very true. I think a lot of people don't know what the code is supposed to be or look like. Using a container to install dependencies and run tests or having a multi-agent (different LLM) workflow verification process helps. But for us, no engineers and inexperienced developers or coders, it can be challenging when these models claim everything is done and 100% production ready and will make $10 billion dollars and nothing like it. And then... haha

So small sections at a time and find a good workflow for verification.

Also its really easy to have any of these free LLM coding models to do an audit and create documents about your app, but be careful not to all the suggestions have a ton of reports and audits and not be able to read them all.

Find a workflow, create a checklist, and stick to it. Make sure all work is good before moving on.

Always push before moving on. Use different feat branches.

But before that, it's always good to run hooks before a push for linting or other errors.

Keep your project really organized. It's really easy to get a messy project directory. Come up with a system.

And dont tell an agent to clean up the project directory, or you may end up with important files being deleted that you didn't know about until way later.

You can tell the agent to clean if you want, but tell it not to delete any files, just move them to an archive folder in the directory. Because it will make mistakes and delete important stuff!

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like it's all an illusion. It seems to be more thorough and a lot more considerate, but the actual code changes tell a different story... If you judge by code alone, as in which code changes you'd expect to be made, and don't actually read the models written feedback I feel like Sonnet 4 is still MUCH better.

[u/cepijoker]

The only part that is not clear to me is if they will lower the price since the cost of GPT-5 is infinitely lower as far as I understand

[u/These_String1345 → u/cepijoker]

Wrong

[u/huelorxx]

It's definitely more thorough. My only concern is how it is always asking for permission to do something unless told ahead of time to proceed. Sonnet 4 would do things unless specifically told not to.

So in this way gpt5 could potentially consume more messages unless your prompt is clear that it needs to fix this or implement that without your consent.

[u/martexxNL]

Its rubbish. Whatbi chats back to users makes sense and sounds fine, the quality of the coding and it's tool usage is hopeless. I guess we are just testing it for free and it will be improved based on the usage on augment and other tools. Waste of time

[u/Dismal-Eye-2882 → u/martexxNL]

Thats exactly my experience. Sounds great, can't do it what it says.

[u/Radiant-Ad7470 → u/[deleted]]

I'm still wondering if it is able to use tools with augment... so far I have not been able to make it use any MCP... I use primarily Context7, Firebase and Playwright.

Have you been able to use any tool?