AI Is In Its Gentleman Science Era
AI research is wide open for builders with heretical ideas. The window won't last forever.
GPT-5.4 just solved a math problem that a leading researcher spent 20 years engineering to be unsolvable by AI—a watershed moment arriving the same week Karpathy released a tool letting a single GPU run 100 autonomous research experiments overnight. Meanwhile, a retinal chip smaller than a fingernail just restored meaningful vision to 84% of blind trial patients in a peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine study. The frontier is moving faster than the skeptics can update their priors.
AI research is wide open for builders with heretical ideas. The window won't last forever.
The moment you can tell your work sucks is the moment most people quit. AI just makes it harder to hide there.
The pessimists want you to believe we're running out of everything. They're wrong—and they're the only obstacle left.
San Francisco is the only tech hub in America with growing startup formation—and city hall is doing everything it can to drive companies out.
Hard data proves the abundance machine is accelerating—while pessimists run scarcity scripts from an obsolete world.
A developer pointed an AI at 37-year-old C code. Today it's running in your browser. The old rules are dead.
Artificial Superintelligence means it is time to stop playing it safe and raise our ambitions
From the Panama Canal to parklet regulations—why it’s time for Americans to reclaim technology, growth, and the abundance that once defined it.
The numbers prove SF is the undisputed capital of innovation. So why are California politicians hellbent on driving it away?