Rob Leclerc: AI design only gets you to TRL ~2-3/9; the real world slows everything down
robleclerc · x · 2026-10-09
AI practitioner Rob Leclerc argues that x-risk doomers overlook a key fact: AI design alone only reaches a technical readiness level of roughly 2-3 out of 9 — that's the easy part.
Contact with the real world slows everything down, he notes, and deployment takes real time and capital — a point that echoes the ongoing industry debate that capability progress doesn't equal product reality.
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