AI's phase transitions: software, then math, now cyber — 3D and video are next
john__allard · x · 2026-10-22
The author outlines a repeating pattern: new AI capabilities appear at the frontier but stay intangible, predictions get dismissed, PoCs are written off — then a phase change hits overnight. Three fields have lived it in the past year:
- Software engineering: coding agents exploded in early 2026; programming changed more this year than in the prior 15 combined
- Mathematics: from mockery to existential spiral after the Jacobian Conjecture fell and hundreds of frontier math results dropped overnight
- Cyber: despite white-hat head-start operations like Daybreak and Glasswing after April's Mythos preview, capability diffusion into open models hit critical mass — critical vulns in core web infrastructure now land at a drumbeat pace, before frontier offensive capabilities are even broadly available
He predicts 3D modeling, animation, and video editing are entering the same interval, and urges readers to note the vertigo: this is what rising AI capabilities feel like when they stop being hypothetical — everyone will get their own version.
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