Search vet Doug Turnbull: babysitting sloppy frontier models vs. 'superhuman' hype
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-13
- lateinteraction (Doug Turnbull) jokes his days are N hours of frustrated babysitting of frontier models — frequent errors and slop — interrupted by M-minute breaks reading X takes about the same models (and especially the next gen) being superhuman at everything.
- Sharp encapsulation of the gap between practitioner experience and online hype.
Related event: AI founder slams frontier models as useful but far from superhuman(2 posts)→
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