AI is not a bigger grift than crypto. Crypto produced basically nothing of value. If all model improvement stops today, Opus 4.5 with Claude Code is a huge leap in productivity building certain types of software.
Just one more new model bro the next one is AGI bro just give me a trillion dollars and I’ll build the datacenters and everything will be perfect bro I promise bro please
Even if it doesn't see any improvements beyond this point it wouldn't be a big deal. It's good enough for most programmers and any improvements are just a bonus.
The masters of mankind are yearning to replace expensive tech workers with this. With agentic versions of LLMs we are at a point now where they can (and should) certainly try and create a more hilarious world
It _is_ stuck at this point.
There's so much money involved no one wants to admit it out loud.
They have no path to the necessary exponential gains and no one is actually working on it.