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AI's biggest critic has lost the plot

Kelsey Piper · 28 Apr 2026

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  1. By almost every metric, AI progress from 2024 to 2026 has been much faster than AI progress from 2022 to 2024.
  2. At the same time, the cost of querying a model at a given capability level has plummeted. GPT-4-level intelligence is about 1/1000th as expensive as it was when GPT-4 was released.
  3. Making them more productive is a big deal, and in 2026, AI makes them more productive.

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