2026 presents unfathomable opportunities for taking positive action to help the future go well. I see very few people oriented to what I see as many of the foundational basics.
1) With GPT-5.2-Codex-xhigh, Claude Code Opus 4.5, GPT-5.2-Pro, and the increasing DX tooling being created every hour, building wildly ambitious software in absurd time is exceptionally feasible. I am talking 1-6 devs building software platforms in weeks for agent-economies factorizing cognitive work at scale, with ultra-parsimonious, easy-to-build-upon Rust codebases. A 2024-cracked-SWE-year's worth of work per day is basically possible already for thousands of people, if they can manage to be healthy enough and prompt clearly enough.
2) Causing great outcomes basically has to be... (read 362 more words →)
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