Future of Life

The Year AI Dethroned the Coder

Remember when Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997 and we all thought, “Well, at least it’s just chess”? Then AlphaGo did Go dirty in 2016, and we muttered, “But programming is safe, right?”

Yeah, about that.

Kevin Wang, CPO of OpenAI, says 2025 is the final year humans will beat AI at software engineering. That’s right, your ability to stack divs and curse at compilers is officially on borrowed time.

TL;DR: If your job involves being the best at a single thing—writing code, designing ads, churning out blog posts (gulp

The $20 Superintelligence in Your Pocket

Sometimes, revolutions creep up on you. The best ones always do.

When the Internet first arrived, it felt like a curiosity at first, an interesting toy for academics and hobbyists. But before anyone realized what had happened, it swallowed entire industries whole.

Now, something similar is happening again.

For $20 or even $10 a month, sometimes free, anyone on Earth can carry around a super-intelligent assistant in their pocket.

A thing that knows nearly everything, can write and think at lightning speed, and never sleeps. It’s like hiring the smartest person you’ve