AI systems
GPT-5's unified model has a hidden token tax
GPT-5 ships as one model with an automatic router that decides how hard to think for you. Convenient, until you watch a simple question quietly trigger a web search, a page read, and a reasoning chain you never asked for - and burn through a capped Plus plan in an afternoon.
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Start here when you want the current Doric argument instead of a chronological archive.
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