The catapult analogy: why AI models are jagged and robots face a deployment gap
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-21
- Swyx offers an informal intuition for AI models' jagged capabilities in 2026: hailing a taxi but being handed a highly pre-aimed catapult targeting a tiny set of destinations — initially impressive speed and distance, but it never lands where you actually want.
- Chris Paxton endorses the metaphor for robotics, arguing it explains the "deployment gap" and why general-purpose models still don't exist.
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