Burny: AI progress is more continuous than most assume — it's continuous hillclimbing
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-29
Burny argues that AI progress is more continuous than many assume: capabilities come from continuously hillclimbed metric curves, so moments that feel like sudden leaps are often just steady improvements crossing a visible threshold.
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