Wake me up when AI can
Oct 3rd, 2026 A few weeks back I was (once more) impressed with a new release of a frontier model, and realized it was still 2026, about three quarters through the year, the same year I discovered coding agents were becoming useful. It's funny how quickly you get used to the status quo. Using a model for a few days is enough to develop an intuition for its capabilities, and that naturally leads to expectations that would have been unthinkable earlier.
- ▪Oct 3rd, 2026 A few weeks back I was (once more) impressed with a new release of a frontier model, and realized it was still 2026, about three quarters through the year, the same year I discovered coding agents were becoming useful.
- ▪It's funny how quickly you get used to the status quo.
- ▪Using a model for a few days is enough to develop an intuition for its capabilities, and that naturally leads to expectations that would have been unthinkable earlier.
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| Original publisher | Stoppels |
| Canonical URL | https://stoppels.ch/2026/10/03/wake-me-up-when-ai-can.html |
| Publication time | Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:04:10 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-03T19:09:28.983Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-03T19:09:28.983Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Wake me up when AI can... Oct 3rd, 2026 A few weeks back I was (once more) impressed with a new release of a frontier model, and realized it was still 2026, about three quarters through the year, the same year I discovered coding agents were becoming useful. It's funny how quickly you get used to the status quo. Using a model for a few days is enough to develop an intuition for its capabilities, and that naturally leads to expectations that would have been unthinkable earlier. Whenever I hear someone complain about an LLM, I try to picture having the same conversation a year ago.
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