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It's not that it's not good enough. It's that the cheap models are already good enough. I want a daily driver but they are trying to sell me a Ferrari. It's cool, but I have no use for it.

The term you are looking for is probably "moving the goalposts"

It's like a form of magical realism. AI feels like straight up magic, like discovering a genie that grants wishes, but we all have bills to pay and projects to do so weeks later there's a magic lantern on every desk and the genie's doing grandma's taxes and wishing he'd stayed in the bottle.

Maybe the hedonic treadmill fits.

surely we will see all of this production code changing the world in the next two weeks like with every revolutionary new model release

Yup, i'll believe the hype when Windows doesn't suck anymore.