“But, still: the current level of AI is useful, great too, but so incredibly behind human intelligence, and I want to remark this as lately it is impossible to have balanced conversations.”

antirez needed a fast way to verify link reciprocity in a 20-million-vector graph. Gemini 2.5 Pro’s best idea was sort and binary search. The hash table, the XOR accumulator and the seeded murmur trick all came from the human. The model was useful as a rubber duck that talks back, and that is all.