Every new model hits an 'intelligence cap': dev sees decompiling stall across model generations
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-09-09
- Developer banteg has run a decompiling project since GPT 5.2 and observes the same pattern with every new model: it breezes through progress for a while, then bogs down at a visible intelligence cap.
- The quoter adds that in this game Astra solved in a day what Fable couldn't in months, so the intelligence jump was real and necessary — and a new Fable is coming.
- Takeaway: model upgrades keep lifting the ceiling, but long-horizon complex tasks still hit per-model limits.
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