Intelligence isn't the bottleneck: specs across real tasks are, argues jefrankle
jefrankle · x · 2026-10-22
Replying to Brendan Foody, jefrankle says he agrees with Ali Ghodsi that we've had AGI-capable intelligence for a while — intelligence isn't the bottleneck; data context and verifying whether AI did the right thing are. He argues the best way to advance the AI frontier is helping people create specifications across the millions of individual tasks that make up real work, calling this the key barrier to economy-wide AI adoption.
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