# Dex Horthy says AI's real strength is context, not deep technical work

> Original title: In 2024 I said something which in retrospect, sounds kinda dumb

- Source: Dex Horthy
- Published: 2026-10-29T15:18:07.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/xemkj9r2em8366s05c9bkz65a
- Original: https://x.com/dexhorthy/status/2115825513948393937

## Summary

Dex Horthy says he argued in 2024 that models are best at collecting, formatting, summarizing and relaying context across a business. He now says models are solving millennium problems and cloning Redis, while many people's worst daily chore is reading verbose, unreviewed AI-written Slack messages and docs.

## Post

In 2024 I said something which in retrospect, sounds kinda dumb

> we keep trying to get models to do this deeply technical stuff like write code and do math, but what they’re really good at is collecting/formatting/summarizing and relaying CONTEXT - we should be figuring out how to reduce the overhead of recording / relaying everything happening across a business

And now 

1) models are solving millennium problems and cloning redis

2) the worst parts of most people’s days are reading verbose, AI-written slack messages and docs that the sender didn’t bother to review

Anyways keep learning yall