From Mocked to Vindicated: A Redditor Weighs Life Plans in the AGI Era
StateoftheeArt · reddit · 2026-09-17
The author was called an idiot for claiming we were in the proto-AGI era when Claude Opus 4.6 shipped; now OpenAI's astra is being called AGI outright, and he feels vindicated. Happy that progress matches or beats predictions, he asks the practical question: what should we do now to secure a "Star Trek-esque" future? His plan: finish his final year of college, take an easy job and coast until money stops mattering, then build a solarpunk farm and dog sanctuary. He's collecting others' strategies in the thread.
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