AI usage inflects exponentially past capability thresholds — is research next?
menhguin · x · 2026-10-07
- menhguin observes AI adoption explodes exponentially once a capability crosses a viability threshold: ChatGPT's chat → fastest-growing product ever; Anthropic's coding → AI coding boom; next up, models doing research.
- Quoting OfirPress: AI math has progressed faster and less predictably in 6 months than coding ever did; coding's "Navier-Stokes moment" hasn't arrived yet.
- menhguin's rebuttal: "not good at research yet" echoes the early skepticism about chat and coding, right before their inflection points.
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