'Enjoy the low-polygon era': F-117 meme captures today's AI constraints
willcb · x · 2026-10-28
willcb posts "enjoy the low-polygon era while it lasts" alongside the F-117 stealth fighter's Wikipedia entry: its faceted shape existed because 1970s computers couldn't compute curved-surface radar cross-sections; only later supercomputers enabled curved stealth aircraft like the B-2. The meme reads today's rough AI outputs as a compute-limited transitional era before quality takes off.
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