Are human intelligence limits of AI researchers the real bottleneck?
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-10
The author argues that AI progress may be badly constrained by the human intelligence of AI researchers themselves — that the bottleneck lies in researcher cognition rather than compute or data.
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