AI Excels at Scaling Human Ideas but Not Novel Ones — Yet
dbasch · x · 2026-08-24
The author observes that AI is extremely good at taking the best human tools and ideas and applying them at scale and speed (e.g., finding vulnerabilities), but it isn't yet good at coming up with genuinely novel ideas — though it's improving.
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