Author of "Among the Agents"
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Frontier AI labs are automating their research and engineering operations, with effective workforces growing from thousands to hundreds of thousands of AI agents capable of recursively improving themselves within one to two years.
“Author of "On Recursive Self-Improvement (Part I)"”
Coding agents like Claude Opus 4.5, GPT-5.2, and Gemini 3 Pro have reached capability levels meeting some definitions of AGI, and the competitive advantage now lies not in building AI systems but in discovering better ways to work with them to transform business, science, and governance.
“Author of "Among the Agents"”
The US-China 'AI race' metaphor is inadequate because there is no clear finish line or shared understanding of the competition's objective; it is better characterized as an unbounded, multi-dimensional technological and economic competition.
“Author of "The Bitter Lessons" in Hyperdimensional”