This post was originally published on the main website on Apr 23 2026. I am reposting it here for SEO reasons and enabling humble bumble discussions with the DEV community. Feel free to engage with this post and i am available to respond during weekends. Sorry about the spam posting all the blogs in one day. I forgor about my dev account <3!
Hey everyone 👋,
In my previous posts I have been building one argument from many different angles, and if you have been reading along, you already know where I keep landing. In Language is Limited. ASI is Impossible., I said that words are not thoughts and that any machine trapped inside symbols is trapped inside a cage it cannot see. In Mathematical Equations are Multimodal by default, I argued that the only honest language for describing reality is mathematics, because equations encode mechanisms while text only encodes descriptions. In Training Is an Evil Concept. LMMs Eliminates it Altogether., I went further and argued that the training paradigm itself is a form of extraction that concentrates value in the wrong hands while pretending to be progress. In Rethinking ARC‑AGI, I showed that even the benchmarks people use to celebrate AI progress are essentially measuring the wrong thing, rewarding pattern matching while calling it reasoning. All of these posts have been getting closer to something I want to say plainly in this one, something I have been circling for a long time without just saying it in the most direct language I can manage. The thing is this: every AI system you have ever used, every assistant, every chatbot, every agent, every copilot, every oracle dressed up in a sleek interface, has access to knowledge and has access to tools, but none of them, not one, has intelligence in the sense that word deserves to carry. I do not mean that as a small technical qualifier. I mean it as the central fact about what modern AI actually is, and I think almost nobody in the mainstream conversation is saying it this directly, and so I am going to say it here, as carefully and as plainly as I can, and let the argument carry its own weight.
