A computer can do anything provided you learn to tell it how.
Very recently, this has become vastly easier to do.
Chalk up another victory for Carmack’s Law:
Doing comp sci research with Opus 4.6 Extended (here, in the context of an upcoming Verse programming language theory paper) is really a Flowers for Algernon moment. It's a superpower, like having a team of graduate students that can answer questions on demand on any topic.
My favorite thing about Twitter is when you open your feed and see something interesting that you never saw before and then it changes for no reason and you can never see that other thing again.
10 days into 2026:
- Terence Tao announces GPT & Aristotle solve Erdős problem autonomously
- Linus Torvalds concedes vibe coding is better than hand-coding for his non-kernel project
- DHH walks back “AI can’t code” from Lex podcast 6 months later
An acceleration is coming the likes of which humanity has never experienced before