The Superintelligence That Can’t Handle Tuesday Traffic

A system smart enough to generate thousands of lines of code can still collapse into silence when too many people ask it to summarize a PDF. That’s the central absurdity of the AI boom, and we lean into it: the promise of near-AGI colliding with the messy reality of inference bottlenecks, overloaded memory, and very expensive servers that still need “unscheduled naps.” We dig into the boldest claims shaping the conversation right now, including aggressive AGI timelines, the idea of an AI-pow...