AI Is In Its Gentleman Science Era
AI research is wide open for builders with heretical ideas. The window won't last forever.
AI is collapsing the cost of building software by two orders of magnitude — a quarter of YC startups now have 95% of their code written by AI, and some are hitting $10M in revenue with fewer than 10 people. The binding constraint has shifted upstream to energy: data centers are on track to consume 10% of US electricity by 2028, while Germany's nuclear phase-out stands as a live case study in what happens when policy treats reversible decisions as permanent. The next wave of competition is moving to AI memory architecture, with open-source projects racing to give agents persistent context across sessions.
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?