But there's just something about the immediacy and interactivity of Claude's "Artifacts" window, combined with the model's less stilted tone that brings it home.

For the most avarege users, these seemingly minor difference matter so much more than raw performance on abstract LLM benchmarks.

What’s left is a runaway process. A sequence of product releases masquerading as progress. Every “small update” contains untested implications. Every “upgrade” shifts the terrain just a little more. Until suddenly a world exists where AI runs parts of the labor market, moderates political discourse, generates synthetic research, and no one... See more

Press releases announce “company-wide AI adoption.” Hallway conversations tell a different story. Employees haven’t opened the tools in weeks. The data lies. Comms lies. Dashboards show logins, not usage. Activation, not integration.

This is transformation theater. The appearance of change without the pain of change.