Don’t skip this one. We’ve been warning about this, and everyone said, “nah, AI is just a fancy search engine”, or “AI makes too many mistakes… it will never replace people. Don’t be a conspiracy theorist.”
From the article:
“But I tried AI and it wasn’t that good…
I hear this constantly. I understand it, because it used to be true.
If you tried ChatGPT in 2023 or early 2024 and thought “this makes stuff up” or “this isn’t that impressive”, you were right. Those early versions were genuinely limited. They hallucinated. They confidently said things that were nonsense.
That was two years ago. In AI time, that is ancient history.
The models available today are unrecognizable from what existed even six months ago. The debate about whether AI is “really getting better” or “hitting a wall” — which has been going on for over a year — is over. It’s done. Anyone still making that argument either hasn’t used the current models, has an incentive to downplay what’s happening, or is evaluating based on an experience from 2024 that is no longer relevant. I don’t say that to be dismissive. I say it because the gap between public perception and current reality is now enormous, and that gap is dangerous… because it’s preventing people from preparing.”
AI is now building the next AI
There’s one more thing happening that I think is the most important development and the least understood.
On February 5th, OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Codex. In the technical documentation, they included this:
“GPT-5.3-Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. The Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluations.”
Read that again. The AI helped build itself.
This isn’t a prediction about what might happen someday. This is OpenAI telling you, right now, that the AI they just released was used to create itself. One of the main things that makes AI better is intelligence applied to AI development. And AI is now intelligent enough to meaningfully contribute to its own improvement.
Read the entire article here… your future depends on it.
Okay. So what CAN’T AI do better than you can for yourself? Well, it can’t plant and grow your garden. It can’t [currently] repair your plumbing, or replace an electrical outlet. It can’t cut your firewood, feed your dog, or cook your dinner. It can’t drive your car for you… huh, scratch that one. It can’t replace the brakes on your car, or change your oil. It can’t paint, pull weeds, or provide an actual relationship with a living, breathing human being. It can’t collect the eggs from the hen house. It can’t drill a well, or frame a house. Sure, it can design it, but you have to nail the boards together. It can’t pump your septic tank, or cut your hair.
All is not lost, but if you are in ANY of the industries that are mentioned in the article linked above, your immediate future is in peril. Don’t wait six months to see what happens. That’s just stupid. Don’t panic, but don’t screw around either. In six months you may not have a job, but you’ll still have a mortgage payment. In six months you’ll still have property taxes due. In six months you’ll still have an electric bill, and, by the way, it’s going to go up in order to pay for all the electricity that these monstrous AI engines are going to require. We are in for change that nobody can see coming, and nobody can stop it. Time is very, very short. Maybe the SHTF isn’t an earthquake, or a tsunami, or a solar micronova (yeah, but that’s coming too). Maybe it’s the collapse of the entire white collar workforce. Worldwide. How are you going to survive?
–Hammers Thor
My point exactly.