Growing split between exponential vs steady-state AI mental models
June 27, 2026
A widening gap is forming between practitioners who model AI progress as exponential and those who treat current capabilities as a stable plateau, leading to miscommunication about planning horizons and investment decisions.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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founderThis framing gap matters when pitching, hiring, or setting product roadmaps — counterparts may be operating on fundamentally different assumptions about where capabilities will be in 12–24 months.