The lack of continual learning is a huge bottleneck: there's no way to give a model high-level feedback, so you're stuck with the abilities you get out of the box; tweaking the system prompt does not produce anything close to the learning and improvement human employees experience.

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Dwarkesh Patel

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This lack of continual learning is a huge huge bottleneck. ... You can keep messing around with the system prompt, but in practice this just doesn't produce anything even close to the kind of learning and improvement that human employees experience.

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Why I don’t think AGI is right around the cornerDwarkesh Patel
Created: 6/13/2026, 7:00:29 PM

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