"AGI by 2025" and other fairy tales VC bros tell themselves

every other week some founder with a mid haircut drops a thread about how we're "months away" from superintelligence because their chatbot wrote a poem about javascript bruh we cant even get these things to stop hallucinating citations and yall think theyre about to invent new physics remember gpt-4? "game over for programmers" they said. meanwhile im still getting paid to fix ai generated spaghetti code that breaks if you look at it wrong the hype cycle is just mainlining copium at this point. call me when it actually does something useful without costing $20 in api calls to make a grocery list touch grass people