AI is compressing multiple discovery from years to hours
abeirami · x · 2026-07-21
The post argues that a problem becomes much easier to solve once you know who else can solve it and which tools they use. It connects this to the classic pattern of multiple discovery: as a field and its tools mature, different people independently arrive at the same idea in a short time window.
The author says AI is now showing the same clustering effect, except the window has shrunk dramatically—from months or years in the past to minutes or hours today.
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