Paul Sturrock

But and therefore are words that signal change. The story was heading in one direction, but now it’s heading in another. We started out zigging, but now we are zagging. We did this, and therefore this new thing happened.

The trend predicts that in under a decade we will see AI agents that can independently complete a large fraction of tasks in hours that currently take humans days or weeks.

To be the idiot in the age of AI is to stand at the edge of one’s own knowledge and resist the impulse to retreat. It is not a capitulation; it is a discipline.