Vespa's jobergum: imagination and agency, not model capability, remain the bottleneck
jobergum · x · 2026-09-07
Jon Bratseth (jobergum), author of Vespa, argues that even with infinitely capable models or AGI, you still need someone to decide what to build — lack of imagination and agency has always been the bottleneck.
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