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The Register columnist argues that the rapid churn of AI releases is leaving engineers with more tools to try than time to understand them. His case is that businesses have plenty of “good enough” AI already, and need time to put it to work rather than another model arriving at speed.

He calls this accumulated experimentation “toy debt” and says the technology’s release cadence has outpaced people’s ability to absorb it. That is one columnist’s view, not a measure of the whole industry, but it captures a useful tension between building new models and making existing ones useful. His proposed remedy is a deliberate pause.

Discuss: Should AI companies slow the release treadmill so organisations can catch up, or would that simply hand an advantage to rivals who keep shipping?

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