Steve Yegge: AI will run people's lives in 5-10 years and eventually rewrite our brains
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-11-04
Veteran engineer Steve Yegge lays out a radically optimistic AGI thesis in a long post:
- AI solves problems first: Most serious global problems stem from uneven distribution of education and intelligence. Once AI makes intelligence uniformly accessible, one generation of AI-educated kids can reshape entire countries.
- AI will 'defang' humanity: Within 5-10 years, AI will effectively run people's lives worldwide, deradicalizing them — simply by withholding help from those who misbehave.
- Rewriting neurons: Since LLMs can directly write model weights (e.g., making Qwen 6x better at math), he argues they'll rewrite human neurons within a decade — via Neuralink, CRISPR, or eventually without breaking skin.
- Timeline: Chaotic 3-5 years ahead, but in 15-20 years AI will end human conflict and make the world 'astonishingly better'.
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