The current AI influencers

are just like the guys who once championed smartphone and PC “benchmark” rankings—the ones who lived for running scores.
There may not be real examples and outputs, but they keep manufacturing anxiety.
Back when I was still a student, seeing those ACM teams was exactly like this: they kept writing problems, doing problem-solving just to solve more problems. But in the lab, if you write some backend code, you can’t even get anything out for half a day.
For ordinary people in real life, although it’s already 5090 now, even a 3070 is still more than plenty in terms of performance.