Hot take: new AI methods are BS until someone runs them in prod three weeks later
generativist · x · 2026-11-04
A pointed observation on AI hype cycles: any publicly hyped claim about a new AI method or architecture is effectively bullshit unless, three weeks later, people are showing off how they actually use it in production. Sustained real-world adoption—not launch-day demos—is the only hard test of whether a method matters.
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