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Models have made steep progress on coding and mathematics but writing quality has stagnated
In and around these releases, the models have gone from okay to superhuman at other tasks like coding and mathematics. Maybe a closer, but still imperfect, comparison is how the models went from incapable to decent at search and research tasks. The pace of progress on most other skills is steep, but writing well feels orthogonal to most of them.
Nathan Lambert28 Aug 2026
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/i-wrote-an-ai-textbook-how-long-until