A world where local open-weight models freely run on every desktop machine, where AI is smoothly integrated as a simple feature in existing applications and IDEs with an on-off toggle, where agents are fancier Automator scripts, where productivity still goes way up and there's no nutjobs celebrating people losing their jobs and worshipping a fake Silicon Valley AGI god, where LLMs are good but not quite good enough to prevent you from having to think critically, where there's no mass infusion of slop because on a local model it would be too compute-expensive... it would have been a good world. Instead we let the crazies sell us the technology we should be able to run for free on our own machines, and then allow them to make bogus claims that no one ever verifies, all supported by a Ponzi scheme of buying up massive amounts of compute that are actively making our world worse in the short term while making grand claims of some wonderful recursive future that are dubious and unfalsifiable.