> "AI is getting better rapidly"

… is it? I hear people saying that. I see “improvement”: the art generally has the right number of fingers more often, the text looks like text, the code agents don’t write stuff that even the linter says is wrong.

But I still see the wrong number of fingers sometimes. I still see the chat bots count the wrong number of letters in a word. I still see agents invent libraries that don’t exist.

I don’t know what “rapid” is supposed to mean here. It feels like Achilles and the Tortoise and also has the energy costs of a nation-state.

Agreed there really isn’t any metrics that indicate this is true. Considering many models are still too complex to run locally. Llms are getting better for the corporations that sell access to them. Not necessarily for the people that use them.