Why AI progress confuses everyone: daily coding-model users can't explain it to others
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-02
A widely shared take from netcapgirl points out a paradox in AI discourse: if you don't use coding models daily, it's hard to grasp how fast progress is accelerating — but if you do, you're deep enough in "AI psychosis" that explaining the change understandably becomes nearly impossible.
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