Being Surprised by AI Capabilities Is the New Normal
doodlestein · x · 2026-07-11
The author notes an adaptation phenomenon akin to an "ASI treadmill." Even though Fable agents running in code repositories achieved a 30x performance boost on a graph algorithm task, it no longer shocks him. Instead, a "3x improvement" has become his bare minimum expectation.
Drawing a parallel to the "hedonic treadmill," he emphasizes that over the past 15 years, almost no one would have considered today's capabilities normal; from an earlier worldview, all of this remains highly absurd.
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