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The Fractured Brain!!

Modern AI can memorize trillions of tokens but still fails to generalize. The true bottleneck is architecture, not compute. Here’s why scaling is no longer enough.

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Nov 26, 2025
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I spend a lot of time working with frontier models. I build systems around them, fight with their failures, and watch them trip over tasks a beginner should handle. The patterns become obvious once you stop getting hypnotized by benchmark scores.

The models are powerful, but they are fragile. They feel intelligent until you ask them to operate like somet…

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