AI's Rapid Advancement Poses Threat to Millions of White-Collar Jobs

I’m Isaac Saul, and this is Tangle. You are reading a preview of a members-only Friday edition. To read it in full,  you'll be asked to subscribe . Did someone forward you this email? Sign up here . This month, the artificial intelligence discourse hit a new fever pitch.

It started with a viral post on X, titled “ Something Big Is Happening ,” which racked up tens of millions of views. The post was written by Matt Shumer, the CEO of the AI personal assistant company HyperWrite. It’s long, but it’s worth your time.

The thrust of the post is this: Artificial intelligence is improving much faster than most anyone seems to understand, and the rate of improvement is accelerating. AI’s capability has exploded in the last six months, Shumer says, and people who played with AI tools two years or 12 months or six weeks ago have no idea how much better they are

today.  To make his point, Shumer described how he, a programmer, is basically not needed for any programming tasks anymore. He gives the AI instructions, it codes something, it writes its own tests, it runs those tests, and then it fixes the mistakes it finds; he just sits back and watches.