Jagged capability frontier

The observation that an LLM's competence is unevenly distributed, excelling at some tasks while unpredictably failing at seemingly similar ones, so real usefulness cannot be inferred from marketing demos.

grounded in: trend themes 'LLM hype backlash: separating genuine LLM usefulness from inflated marketing claims' and 'Automation without comprehension: agents execute steps without understanding, so trust needs gro

Connected concepts

AI hype cycle, Appropriate reliance, Potemkin understanding, Evals & benchmarks