I've been programming since elementary school. I lived through the PC revolution, the web, social, cloud, mobile.
I've never seen anything like this.
We used to call it "internet time." The dizzying pace where technology, society, and human life accelerate together. AI Time makes internet time look quaint.
Over the past two weeks I've talked with friends at every frontier model company. Every conversation circles the same two ideas: we've never seen change move this fast, and nobody has a map.
A year ago Boris Cherney shipped Claude Code as a hack. Today it's writing 99% of the code to upgrade itself, and is responsible for 40% of all GitHub commits.
My coaching practice is fully AI-enabled. Half my clients run AI companies. The other half are scrambling to figure out what their startup even is anymore.
Last summer I built a coaching bot with Ed Batista. Over 100,000 conversations later, it's running with 4.9 stars and Ed's clients bring chats with it to their sessions.
The Pope, Yuval Harari, and Chris Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, all agree this is a dangerous moment for humanity. And we also can't seem to stop.
Honest confession: I'm not sure I want to? I was up past midnight, again, last night. Building, chatting, running deep research, monitoring usage graphs. I've started timing my real work around usage limits. My GitHub tracker now has a green square every day.
I don't know if this is healthy. I don't know if it's sustainable.
I've never been this addicted to something this productive.
I'm not smart enough or unbiased enough to tell you if this is good or bad. I wanted to describe this moment. Maybe you recognize yourself in it. Maybe you violently disagree.
A partial list of what I built this past week:
* Ingested the past year of my Mom's medical records to help her understand her health and find better care.
* Broke ground on an AI marketing stack for a beauty brand. Started test-driving Meta's Ad MCP server.
* Redesigned a Shopify store in Codex.
* "Stole" (i.e leased) a car using a two-month process I designed in AI.
* Ran a 5-point deep research report across 3 platforms on whether to pursue building a data center in the Caribbean.
* Upgraded my agentic Chief of Staff to run in the cloud.
* Launched a weekend events planner for my family.
I can't stop.
Underneath all of it, I see the layoffs, the ham-fisted posts by CEOs and the uncertainty of the time we're living in. It feels neither sustainable nor stoppable. There's big wave surfing and then there's a tsunami. Not sure which one I'm paddling out to if I'm being honest.
AI Time
