"Today is the quiet period": dev on why AI progress never feels slow in hindsight
jam3scampbell · x · 2026-10-19
A developer reflects: whenever he thinks AI has gotten crazy in the past year or two, he realizes that in another year or two, today will look like the quiet before the storm — a recursion that holds until his grandma is asking him logistical details about mind uploading.
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