I think you've misunderstood what good enough means in the context - which is a model capable of completing the tasks assigned to it without having the breadth of full generalization. Your analogy breaks down because of this - we did get 'good enough' spec profiles for different hardware. That thing you're wearing on your wrist won't have the same specifications as the box you use to play games.
> a model capable of completing the tasks assigned to it
The thing is, the "task assigned to it" is changing with improved capabilities. If everyone around you in 2036 is using general AI to do amazing stuff, you will probably have little interest in vibe coding slop like it's 2026.
Only if you give in to fads and FOMO.
The core tasks people need change at a much smaller pace.
That's correct. The problem is they have smart people, tons of money, and several years to figure that out, and the best thing they can come up is a coding agent.
The ‘best’ things are; - fuzzy pattern matching algorithms for traffic analysis, human and other image target recognition.
- targeting algorithms that identify ‘suspicious’ individuals in large volumes of metadata.
- fraud analysis
- antagonistic image and video generation, both for fooling other fraud analysis, but also for propaganda, screwing with other actors, etc.
- directed high speed content generation (text, pictures, video) to spam the ‘algorithm’ and allow near realtime identification of additional buttons to push for given target audiences.
- massive marketing/ad manipulation.
Those budget line items (and the suppliers) really want to stay off the radar however, as it makes their life harder.
That would be the dream... no fucking Electron! No lockdown modules.