Developer Turns Bearish: New AI Models Are Losing Generalization Capabilities
nptacek · x · 2026-07-29
A developer shared increasingly bearish thoughts on AI progress, arguing that the core thesis of 'scaling up training leads to broad new capabilities' is proving false.
He observed that recent batches of models have actually become less general. This is most evident in their language outputs, which have significantly degraded compared to earlier reasoning models like o3, contradicting expectations of gaining generalist capacities.
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