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# Models Are Not Plateauing

> "People who tell you the models are plateauing are lying. They are lying to you. The models are getting much faster."
> 
> — [[entity-nate-b-jones]]

## Why It Matters
The speaker's strongest anti-narrative statement. He uses unusually pointed language ('lying') to drive home that the perceived plateau is, in his view, a **user-context problem masquerading as a model problem**. See [[contrarian-models-plateauing]] for the fully unpacked argument and the honest counter-evidence (Apple's 'Illusion of Thinking', Epoch AI's diminishing returns research).

## Use as Priming
Useful when a user opens with 'AI has stopped getting better' — pivot via this quote into running [[framework-stupid-button-audit]].