Rohit Krishnan: defining the messiness AI can't do would let us hillclimb it away
BethMayBarnes · x · 2026-11-15
Rohit Krishnan (a16z) highlights a subtle sleight of mind in AI capability debates: if we could precisely articulate the specific kind of "messiness" AI can't handle, we could help it hillclimb toward doing it. The ambiguity of capability boundaries is itself what keeps them from becoming solvable problems.
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