500K replicas of OK intelligence scare this AI worker more than a god model
mertdumenci · x · 2026-09-09
The author argues much of what's coming in AI won't come from one all-seeing god model that can one-shot everything, but from deploying an insane number of replicas of merely OK intelligence at problems. Daily users know current AI isn't very scary yet — but he says he has no mental model for 500K replicas working together, and that realization scares him more about the future than ever.
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