The AI Disillusionment Law: Frontier Models Feel Godlike for Days, Then Dumb
D3VAUX · x · 2026-08-25
A user proposes naming a phenomenon: after days or weeks of use, AI users habituate to frontier capabilities and rapidly flip from "this model is close to god" to "this model is dumb" — jokingly dubbed "Meat Proxy." It's a classic case of capability baselines resetting expectations, and the thread is crowdsourcing a name for it.
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