Automation

The Prediction Nobody Wants to Believe Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO): “AI systems broadly better than all humans at almost all things” — 2026 or 2027 Shane Legg (DeepMind co-founder): 50% chance of minimal AGI — 2028 The uncomfortable truth: Most people still think AI is “just a tool.” The experts building it disagree. Part 1: 2026 — The Year Agents Become Real What Actually Changes AI Development: Capability Current (2025) End of 2026 Multi-modal Text + limited image Text + image + audio + video standard Coding Assists with well-defined problems Handles entire features independently Agents Experimental Production-ready for specific workflows The Stanford projection: 2026 marks the beginning of “precise economic impact measurement” for AI — we’ll finally be able to quantify what AI actually does to productivity and employment. ...

The Problem with AI Chatbots Most AI tools wait for you to ask. You type a prompt, get an answer, and move on. But the real work—the repetitive tasks that eat your day—doesn’t happen in single prompts. It happens in multi-step workflows: Reading meeting notes across 5 teams Triaging 50 IT tickets per week Compiling weekly status reports for leadership Notion Custom Agents (launched Feb 2026) solve this differently: give them a job, set a trigger, and they work 24/7. ...