stared at the prompt box for Claude Fable for a few minutes and started to wonder if the bottleneck has shifted from model capability to user imagination.
1:19 PM · Jun 9, 2026 · 6.3K Views
Hidden Capital founder Blake Robbins argues user imagination, not model capability, is now the primary bottleneck in AI performance
Robbins made the observation while using Anthropic's Claude Fable
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Many users agree imagination now outpaces Claude as the bottleneck because they describe constantly generating ideas while staying mindful of token limits and careful usage.
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signüll@signulll
@blakeir if you look at an average chatgpt user, that has been pretty true for a while.
Blake Robbins@blakeir
stared at the prompt box for Claude Fable for a few minutes and started to wonder if the bottleneck has shifted from model capability to user imagination.
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Jonah@JonahBlake
@blakeir Invest in dmt futures
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Gavin Purcell@gavinpurcell
@blakeir 100% although my imagination keeps firing on stuff and i'm much more aware of how many tokens i get right now more so than ever before
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Matt J. McDonald@MattJMcD
@blakeir Right now for me it's that feeling where you don't want to take your new car out of the garage without a lot of care even through you know it's gonna be a ton of fun to drive
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Brian Via@BrianVia
@blakeir yes this is why you need your own set of private benchmarks like simon wilison has
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Peter Howell@peterhowell
@blakeir Solved by keeping a list of things you wish you could create that previous models couldn’t crack.
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Ken Wattana@KenWattana
@blakeir It's why the chat box is not the final UI
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John Hwang@ainativefirm
@blakeir It has always been
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