AI has plateaued

Think about how a kid develops.

From 6 months to 24 months there is a new milestone almost every single week with new sounds, new motor skills, new expressions. Then the child turns 2 and the growth curve flattens.

The progress becomes slower and more incremental.

That is exactly where AI is right now.

18 months ago every week brought something that broke the mental model. A new model. A new capability. A new way to build.

Everyone was scrambling to keep up because the ground under the entire industry was moving so fast that the strategies you built on Monday were already overdone by Friday.

That phase is over.

The wild innovation phase where everything felt like magic has quietly ended.

This is not bearish. It is the best possible news for anyone building a business.

There is a principle in innovation studies called Amara's Law. Every major technology in the last hundred years has followed this exact pattern. The early hype phase creates a bubble of expectations that reality cannot possibly match. When reality fails to match, the market gets bored, moves on, and declares the technology "overhyped." Then, quietly, in the shadow of that boredom, the actual applications get built.

The internet had this exact arc. The dotcom crash was not the end of the internet. Amazon, Google, and eventually the entire modern economy came from the flat part of the curve.

AI is entering that exact window right now.

The plateau feels boring from the outside because the headlines have slowed down. Inside the plateau is where the money gets made.

If you have been waiting for the "right time" to build with AI, it is now because the tech is finally stable enough.

Execute on what works.

– Wiz

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