⚡ Activation

💭 in your head · nothing to type

2024 example: Claude/GPT could refactor 100,000 lines of code — and miscount the number of "r"s in "strawberry"; newer models pass this example.

Don't picture this as "AI with bugs" — picture it as a savant. Someone who is uncannily brilliant in one dimension and utterly helpless at something a child handles in a second.

Run two moments in your head: one when AI floored you with its capability — and one when AI floored you with its cluelessness. Both moments are about the same system. What could possibly make both true at once?

👁 Reflection

💭 in your head · nothing to type

Jagged Intelligence = the model shines in some tasks and faceplants in others, and the "easy/hard" logic doesn't match human intuition.

What AI does easily:

• Rewrite a long text in a different style
• Find patterns in logs
• Generate boilerplate code
• Summarize a meeting
• Translate between languages

What AI does poorly:

• Precise counting (characters, numbers, array indices)
• Event chronology ("what happened first — A or B")
• Geometry and spatial reasoning
• Access to fresh data without tools