Garry Tan says AI is making everyone equal as superintelligence reshapes product building
garrytan · x · 2026-07-21
- Garry Tan retweets Pieter Levels’ take that “superintelligence is here,” arguing AI is now moving the direction of events more than humans are.
- The thread says AI has compressed product-building from months to hours, making many projects look alike: useful, but “slop.”
- It also claims non-technical people can now build things as good as, or better than, technical founders, and that almost nobody really knows what comes next.
- The attached image is a metaphor of people running after the same carrot, underscoring the sameness and speed of AI-era work.
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