Schrödinger’s Apocalypse

Today on the AI Daily Brief, the week the global AI conversation hit a whole new level. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, Assembly, Robots and Pencils, AIUC, and Blitsy. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. To learn about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. While you're on a idailybrief.ai, you can subscribe to our newsletter, which is newly restarted, and which is going to have all of the links to all of the articles and posts that I reference in the show. And you can also learn about all our various other ecosystem initiatives like Clawcamp or Enterprise Claw, registration for which is open until the end of next week. The last couple of months have seen a steady growing acknowledgment of just how significant the disruption of AI is. This shift came first to those who are actually in the industry. Just last week, OpenAI founder Andrej Karpathy wrote, it's hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last two months. Not gradually and over time in the progress as usual way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks, but in my opinion, coding agents basically didn't work before December and basically worked since. The models have significantly higher quality, long term coherence and tenacity, and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You're not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented. That era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks in English, and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long running orchestrator clause with all of the right tools, memory, and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier agentic engineering feels very high right now. In my opinion, this is nowhere near business' usual time in software. Now, of course, this is not limited to software. On the earnings call where he explained the 40% reduction in the block team, Jack Dorsey specifically noted, the leap that AI had made around the same December timeline. And indeed, Wall Street is one of the main places where the recognition of the phase shift in AI is fully coming home to roost. Michael Gayed of the League Lag Report wrote this week, I once tweeted AI is BS. Have been playing around with perplexity computer to automate workflows. It's not BS. It's going to fundamentally alter the world. I believe it now. By the …