Redditor gripes AI progress is lopsided: coding benchmarks soar, consumer uses stall
Friendly_Break196 · reddit · 2026-10-20
- A Reddit user reviews AI progress since early 2025 (the Ghibli-style image wave in March-April, Veo 3 going viral in May-June) and says they're unsatisfied: daily feeds are full of math and coding milestones irrelevant to ordinary consumers.
- The use cases they care about barely moved: actually usable video translation (calling out YouTube), NSFW content, and building playable games from scratch.
- The thread captures the gap between benchmark breakthroughs and real consumer value, sparking debate on the pace of AI progress.
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