Picture the F-150 commercial. Deep voice, truck on a mountain, "Built Ford To...

Picture the F-150 commercial. Deep voice, truck on a mountain, "Built Ford Tough."

Now add one line at the end: "The F-150 may burst into flames. We don't fully understand why. But trucks are inevitable."

Nobody buys that truck. There are recalls and a congressional hearing by Friday, because a truck is a product and you answer for the products you build.

That ad is how the AI industry talks about itself. Swap the nouns.

The framing is Cal Newport's, not mine: AI isn't weather. It's a set of specific tools that specific companies chose to build and are now selling to you. You get to judge them one at a time.

Nothing in my talk depends on the next model being better. It depends on the current ones being good at config files, which they are.

Clip from Carolina Code Conference