Goal post has been moving for a while on HN.
2023: Hallucinates too much to be useful.
2024: LLMs have plateaued. Scaling laws are dead.
2025: No one pays for AI
2026: Inference is unprofitable and unsustainable
For many people, if AI finds a cure to cancer, they'll say it's still useless because it hasn't solved immortality yet.