The _Intelligence_ part of AGI should be able to guide the user through that without all the knobs.

OpenAI tried auto-routing with the initial GPT-5 release and it was immediately clear why that was a bad idea.

intelligence is not omniscience though

Asking questions to clarify user intent is a very low bar for intelligence. A bar that all SOTA models fail consistently at though. (It's both funny and legit infuriating when Opus, after having made a dozen wild assumptions without checking with you, then comes back with a request for clarification on some mundane topic).

but you can keep asking questions ad infinitum

very nontrivial problem knowing when to stop and making assumptions

Yes, that requires some amount of intelligence, that's exactly my point.

I don't understand this at all. Whenever I ask Gemini 3.1 Pro Extended, or Claude 5 Max something in chat, the most I ever wait is maybe 30 seconds. Is that really so bad?

"Wait 30 seconds" as a concept has been totally incompatible with the web, smartphones, etc for about 20 years now.

If you just want to know "When it's the next full moon", yes. Very bad as google can answer in 1s.

That I just type into Google.

That's also using AI :).

ChatGPT already competes with Google...

I didn't say it didn't? Besides, for factual queries that don't need personalisation like that they can aggressively cache them.