Wright Brothers analogy: the first self-funding agent will arrive unnoticed
viksit · x · 2026-09-06
Blogger spakhm quotes David McCullough's Wright Brothers biography — history being made "so obscured by the commonplace" that no one noticed — as an analogy for AI progress. He predicts the first autonomous agent capable of earning its own money on Fiverr and renting its own compute will soon appear, and most observers will dismiss it as a dumb loop, missing that it is the beginning of a new species.
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