Has AI’s “jagged frontier” disappeared, or just moved beyond us?
JnBrymn · x · 2026-07-28
The post asks whether the “jagged frontier” of AI has disappeared or whether intelligence has simply expanded into areas the author no longer understands, using Galois theory and sheaf cohomology as a tongue-in-cheek example of uneven capability.
It’s a speculative take on how model progress can look like general improvement while still leaving surprising blind spots in advanced domains.
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