Fully automation-first: Shulman's view says explosive growth only comes after humans leave the loop
abhiadesai · x · 2026-10-25
Responding to NateWitkin's list of LLM structural limits (hallucination, reward-hacking, context rot, poor generalization, mode collapse), abhiadesai cites Carl Shulman's 2023 Dwarkesh point: growth stays marginal until full automation, then turns explosive — humans in the loop are a 'gorilla in a china shop'. Under this Amdahl's-law view, capabilities are all that matter, making AI-native private equity approaches increasingly suspect; interim revenue is just bridging until automation arrives.
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