A lot of people are wondering how to get consciousness. It's simple: 1. Start with dumb particles that are clearly not conscious 2. Put them in close proximity to each other 3. ??? 4. Particles are now a unified self-aware entity Keep going San Francisco, you're so close!

I think “Super Intelligence” will help us take safety more seriously. With “artificial intelligence” it was like, what, that ol’ autocomplete? Now it’s like, super intelligence? Woah, yeah, let’s keep that thing on a tight leash.

Does a CEO need to understand his employees’ code? Vibecoding is 2025. Evolutionary coding is 2026. Let the code’s DNA evolve to find solutions that satisfy environmental pressure (tests). Genomes are an absolute mess but they work.

i'm tempted to soften the message around AI doomerism and say, look! everyone gets more leverage now! if you were 1x you're 10x now! but in the real world technology can displace. amazingly it's still not clear how AI will affect developers/designers/knowledge workers. this lack of resolution is reassuring. it might mean displacement is a myth. or maybe the models really sucked up until literally this month. that's a real possibility. i do know this: if you wanted to hire someone to pentest your server, would you rather hire a designer with AI, or a security researcher with AI? and if you wanted a design that converts, would you want a backend engineer prompting it, or a designer/marketer? one thing is certain: generalists can now rule the world.

Designers quoting this hanging on for dear life reminds me where most developers were in late 2025. “There’s more to design than X or Y.” “Sure AI can do A but can it do B??” Developers have since learned not to set aside particularities as reserved domains. It’s a strange new world. AI is better than us at most things. It’s super bitter. It’s super bizarre. It’s super science-fictiony. There’s lots to argue about AI. But technical superiority is no longer one of them.

I've worked with brilliant designers in my life and Astra/Opus outshine them 10x when it comes to not only design aesthetics, but remarkably creative UX solutions, in 1/1000th of the time. If we were being doomerish about it, Astra and latest Opus mark the death of designers the way models in 2025 ended coding.

I’ve spoken to over 50 people 1:1 over the last several months to better understand how they code with AI. It’s an absolute mess. Here are the top 8 mistakes I see. 0:00 - Intro 1:19 - Mistake 1: Talking to 2026 models like they’re 2025 models 2:43 - Mistake 2: Devising funky metaphorical factories to orchestrate your agents 3:59 - Mistake 3: Treating context as sacred 6:02 - Mistake 4: Treating previous conversations as sacred 7:59 - Mistake 5: Having a todo list 10:00 - Mistake 6: Using funky tools 13:47 - Mistake 7: Stressing over code quality 24:27 - Mistake 8: Using branches and worktrees