Ideas no longer have a waiting period: agents can build them as soon as they're articulable
akbirthko · x · 2026-10-16
Citing Vernor Vinge's 'industrialization of Mind,' the author argues one reason tech progress feels so fast is that ideas no longer sit in a 'legible but unlikely' waiting period — as soon as an idea can be clearly articulated, an agent can build it. The contrarian takes, they add, mostly lie in culture.
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