Reality Doesn’t Fit in a Prompt

AI has moved from chatbots to reasoning and agentic systems, but it still cannot fully capture the complexity of human real-world context in text.

Even as models grow larger and gain more context or perception, they still lack the shared understanding and judgment needed to know what should be done.

The article argues that AI’s main limit is less about model size and more about compressing human priorities, state, and lived experience into prompts.