I’m lucky to have been able to throw myself headfirst into AI since leaving SadaPay, but almost everybody I know in-industry is still building traditional software. There’s a lot happening. I’m working on my fourth AI project now, and I’m so excited by the work we’re doing in this space. You’re going to see a whole new generation of user experiences. I’ll try to pause and share back sometimes, from now on.

Sometimes when I talk with people about AI, all they can share is that they aren’t impressed with ChatGPT. To me, that reaction seems like seeing electricity power the first electric light bulb, and not being able to imagine an air conditioner, a television, an electrified subway system – or maybe not even a better lightbulb – and thereby concluding that candles aren’t going anywhere.

It’s not that skeptics are wrong, it’s that they’re missing the forest for the trees by evaluating a fundamentally new form of compute – an enormous foundational breakthrough – as if it were a product, based on the first product(s) they have seen it power.

We have some form of intelligence on demand now, like electricity, but electricity required a lot of work to go from the first lightbulb to the massively electrified society we have today. We are building a whole new ecosystem in massive parallel, from chips to user-facing software, and we are really just getting started, but it’s coming faster than you might think.