Dan Shipper

Do we need to bring inventor back?

I feel like that term, it's like what I aspired to be when I was a kid.

So there's like a little 11-year-old in me who's like, yeah, absolutely, I am an inventor, but I would never go around calling myself that.

Because I feel like you have to have a garage workshop and be making things that have springs and make weird noises in order to be an inventor.

I mean, there is a lot to say.

The big update is I just wrote a piece called After Automation because there's so much progress that's happened over the last four months.

I think the biggest thing has been there was this huge step change in models starting in November with Opus 4.5 and then GBD 5.3.

And that has just continued, and I think it's starting to, like, delegating work is starting to cross the chasm from something that you do if you're a coder to all of knowledge work with first Cloud Code, then Cloud Cowork, and now Codex, which Codex, the big shift, the biggest thing that has happened is Codex is my daily driver now, and it's fantastic.

It is, like, totally changing how I work.

But I think as that starts to happen, you're starting to get a lot of people who maybe have not been that clued into agentic AI use it for the first time and go like, holy fucking shit, like everything is going to change.

I totally agree, and you're seeing people, I mean, Dario's out there being like, AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs, but even people outside the industry like Citadel.

Yeah, Ken Griffin.

Yeah, he had this whole quote, and I have it in my piece.

He said, these are not mid-tiered white-collar jobs.

These are extraordinarily high-skilled jobs, being, I'm going to pick a word, automated by agentic AI.

And so you can just feel, you can just smell when someone's used an agent for the first time, and they're like, what the fuck?

And if you've been in AI for, we've been covering it since 2022, since the GPT-3 days, that meme where he's got the noose around his head and he's like, first time?

That's sort of how I feel.

So, I mean, whether or not it's memory specifically, the thing that has changed dramatically is that Codex, and also Cloud Code or CoWork to some extent, but Codex, the reason it's so powerful for me is it has access to everything on my computer.

And so, you know, when I published this article,