This AI stuff is really taking off fast.

And hasn't Ilya been on the cutting edge for a while now?

I mean, just a few hours earlier there was a dupe of this artice with almost no interest at all, and now look at it :)

This was my feelings way back then when it comes to major electronics purchases:

Sometimes you grow to utilize the enhanced capabilities to a greater extent than others, and time frame can be the major consideration. Also maybe it's just a faster processor you need for your own work, or OTOH a hundred new PC's for an office building, and that's just computing examples.

Usually, the owner will not even explore all of the advantages of the new hardware as long as the purchase is barely justified by the original need. The faster-moving situations are the ones where fewest of the available new possibilities have a chance to be experimented with. IOW the hardware gets replaced before anybody actually learns how to get the most out of it in any way that was not foreseen before purchase.

Talk about scaling, there is real massive momentum when it's literally tonnes of electronics.

Like some people who can often buy a new car without ever utilizing all of the features of their previous car, and others who will take the time to learn about the new internals each time so they make the most of the vehicle while they do have it. Either way is very popular, and the hardware is engineered so both are satisfying. But only one is "research".

So whether you're just getting a new home entertainment center that's your most powerful yet, or kilos of additional PC's that would theoretically allow you to do more of what you are already doing (if nothing else), it's easy for anybody to purchase more than they will be able to technically master or even fully deploy sometimes.

Anybody know the feeling?

The root problem can be that the purchasing gets too far ahead of the research needed to make the most of the purchase :\

And if the time & effort that can be put in is at a premium, there will be more waste than necessary and it will be many times more costly. Plus if borrowed money is involved, you could end up with debts that are not just technical.

Scale a little too far, and you've got some research to catch up on :)