Stanford researcher: models are great, but weeks on a complex project reveal the seams
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-11-08
Computational geneticist Anshul Kundaje amplifies Sasha Gusev's take: the models are indeed very good, but if you work on a complex project for multiple weeks you start seeing seams — more and more time spent repeatedly catching and explaining the same failure modes. The quoted post argues you could freeze AI capability at current levels, focus purely on cutting compute cost, and still revolutionize software development with zero existential risk.
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