AI Is In Its Gentleman Science Era
AI research is wide open for builders with heretical ideas. The window won't last forever.
Germany's nuclear reversal, AI cracking 20-year math problems, and a retinal chip restoring sight to 81% of blind patients are among the stories defining a pivotal moment for techno-optimists. The pace of progress—from Karpathy's self-running AI research lab to brain-computer interfaces hitting clinical milestones—is making the gap between skeptics and reality increasingly hard to ignore.
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?