Everyone remembers the first time AI really works. You ask the model for an essay, a strategy, a name for the thing you’re building, and it comes back in seconds, polished and coherent and better than what most people you know could write in hours. It feels like the start of a renaissance that took only a small kick to get going.Then you use it every day for a year, and you slowly realize that the model has only a few ways of doing everything. Every brainstorm is the same brainstorm-shaped objec...