My main thesis is that more than anything we are in a human computer interface shift. Things that were hard are now accessible; experts can leverage their knowledge to move at incredible speeds. This is a shift comparable to Windows 95 dragging the text-based DOS world into the graphical one -- we have moved into the language era.
Lets figure out what this means in the pragmatic world, not just the things that these amazing demos hint at. I've been working with clients to actually apply this technology in the real world, and in addition to the things that I just find interesting.
Looking through the things I've written about over these last few months,
* ai-assisted coding
* agents and tool calling
* especially using small, local and private models
* automation with no and low-code tools
* data exploration and visualization
* running things directly in the browser
* low-tooling fast builds
Things that only experts could do before are now accessible to a wider range of people. And once you go deep into something -- once you become and expert yourself -- you can explore things so quickly that it opens up whole new areas to explore.
Things that used to take weeks take minutes, and it changes the cost-benefit analysis of so many things. Perhaps you wouldn't waste a 4 days exploring a possibility, but you certainly could spend 45 minutes going down the rabbit hole. And maybe you'd find something there.
