Schrödinger’s Apocalypse
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The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
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4 chapters
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What recent developments have elevated the global AI conversation?
Today on the AI Daily Brief, the week the global AI conversation hit a whole new level. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI.
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The last couple of months have seen a steady growing acknowledgement of just how significant the disruption of AI is. This shift came first to those who are actually in the industry. Just last week, OpenAI founder Andrej Karpathy wrote, "...it's hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last two months, not gradually and over time in the progress-as-usual way, but specifically this last December." There are a number of asterisks, but in my opinion, coding agents basically didn't work before December and basically work since. The models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity, and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.
As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You're not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented. That era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks in English, and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator claws with all of the right tools, memory, and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top-tier agentic engineering feels very high right now. In my opinion, this is nowhere near business's usual time in software. Now, of course, this is not limited to software.
On the earnings call where he explained the 40% reduction in the block team, Jack Dorsey specifically noted the leap that AI had made around the same December timeline. And indeed, Wall Street is one of the main places where the recognition of the phase shift in AI is fully coming home to roost. Michael Gay out of the League Lag Report wrote this week, I once tweeted AI is BS, have been playing around with perplexity computer to automate workflows. It's not BS. It's going to fundamentally alter the world. I believe it now. By the end of the year, I believe we will see huge layoffs. Block is a sign of what's to come. This humble shift, a throwing up of the hands and saying I was wrong to doubt this, maybe got its best expression this week in a memo from legendary Oaktree investor Howard Marks.
The memo is called AI Hurdles Ahead. In it, Marks writes, My main reason for writing this addendum is to address significant changes that have taken place in AI over the three months since I published Is It a Bubble? First, he said, there's the pace at which developments in AI are occurring. That speed is unlike anything we've seen before now, and this has implications that have never existed. AI is growing at speeds that greatly outpace the technological innovations of the past. Nothing has ever taken hold at the pace AI has. It's able to change the world at a speed that approaches instantaneous, outpacing the ability of most observers to anticipate or even comprehend. The second important thing that's happened has been an incredible leap ahead in AI's capabilities.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What recent developments have elevated the global AI conversation?
0:00–20:56
2
What are the contrasting narratives of AI as a doom-loop versus productivity explosion?
20:56–22:59
3
What is the '2028 Global Intelligence Crisis' thesis about?
22:59–24:37
4
How is the market reacting to AI advancements and doomsday scenarios?
24:37–29:40