If AI becomes superhuman at math but still can't run a business
herbiebradley · x · 2026-08-28
Herbie Bradley highlights a potential future where AI capabilities remain uneven: rapid progress in verifiable domains (like math) continues to lag behind slower progress in less verifiable areas (like high-level architecture or product design). He asks us to imagine a scenario where agents are strongly superhuman at mathematics in a year, yet still unable to run a business. Essentially, the community hopes that pre-training scale will resolve the issues faced by RLVR.
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