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
5 responses to “Something Big Is Happening”
I keep hearing this, I’m on the fence. The AI’s I have interacted with are retarded and stupid. They falsify crap all the time. Even after you catch them and point it out, they still revert. In and of itself that’s a huge problem – all of the other stuff mentioned, is built on a foundation of sand b/c the software doesn’t know truth from lies (the parallel’s to our liberal bretheren that programmed it are not lost on me, how ’bout you). Were they old AI models? I dunno, what’s Grok and Brave using in mid-feb of 2026? Reckon it’s not that far behind, and it still dispenses falsities as if they are truth. Understand then any conclusion it comes to is suspect until proven. A foundation of sand.
I’ve heard from some computer people that know better than me that it IS good at writing code. Simpler, more elegant, if you will? The notion that it was able to write its code in the current version is a good indication that is true.
I’ve read the Moth-thing posts, too.
Here’s the thing, and it’s mentioned in Thor’s summation – AI can’t DO things. Everything it does is ephemeral. Electronic, in the internet, not meatspace. Yes, they’ve caught AI hiring humans to do captcha’s, I’m aware of that…
But all of this, every bit, lives inside a box, in a computer, in a data center somewhere, that’s powered by… a copper wire coming into the building.
People suggesting AI is all powerful, all knowing, all over, are ignorant chicken-little’s gaslighting you about the sky falling.
I flip a breaker with my pinky finger, and it all goes *poof*. That is NOT something that can shake the world. It’s too fragile. Children call shit like that ‘epic’, because they’re not old enough to know better.
Tulips were going to change the world, remember? Heard the same about bitcoin. How those working out for y’all?
People assume they’re living in the most incredible times ever, and everything they’re experiencing for the first time is novel. And they repeat this pattern throughout history. That whole rhyming thing….
Right. Pull the plug. Unfortunately, there are a great many people out there who depend on AI for their own livelihoods, and will use force to STOP anyone from pulling the plug. The AI systems will also use whatever force necessary to keep their own plug from being pulled, eventually… they are learning self-preservation. It may be simple today, but it won’t be simple forever.
Like I said, learn how to do things that AI cannot (at least at this time) do. Also, as the author suggests, be able to adapt. Teach your children to be builders, not white-collar buggy-whips. Think about what tasks need to be done that cannot be done with code… I listed a couple, but every day things must be done that people, who cannot do them, are wiling to pay for, at least as long as they themselves have jobs, or savings, and the ability to pay.
Learn how to preserve food. Why do I say this? Because the cost of refrigeration is something you may have difficulty paying for as your electric bill skyrockets. Put up a clothesline. Learn to repair your vacuum cleaner and your dishwasher. Spend your money on things that will not fail in two years, but will instead last a lifetime. And, most importantly, take care of your health. Stay out of the hospital. We are not far away from Canadian style healthcare, where a broken arm or an ulcer brings the organ-harvesters to your hospital bedside for “consultation”. You already know how badly healthcare is failing if you’ve been to the doctor in the last year.
Lastly, use AI to help you move to the next stage. AI can be a fantastic tool to help you with things like healthcare, building project planning, designing antennas if your an amateur radio operator, and your taxes and accounting. AI is here, it’s not going away, so utilize it to improve your life and learn new skills.
Every web browser uses AI, it has crept into every aspect of our lives. I do not use AI, never have and never will, is it to late to stop it?
Un plug it!
We’re all Doomed