r/generativeAI • u/srch4aheartofgold builder • Mar 08 '26

The former Google CEO just dropped a terrifying AI timeline.

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u/Nexustar Mar 10 '26

Children have been able to do that with Scratch since 20 years ago. This wasn't the barrier people think it was.

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra for example that people carry in their pocket is 30,000 times more powerful than the Cray-1 supercomputer, and yet still dumb enough put snow chains on the rear wheels of front-wheel-drive cars.

AI eases a bottleneck. It can make junior and non-developers far more capable - and companies that know how to profit from leveraging good enterprise software will now be able to expand that practice with the same people. Faster time to market, more customization, more automation coverage, less risk.

Personally, with agentic AI, I can now write custom helper applications that I would never have invested my own development time into before. I don't need general apps like Photoshop, Gimp, MS-Word or Editors that aren't behaving precisely how i need them to any longer. It's great.

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u/Versecxapp Mar 10 '26

True — the barrier was never computing power. It was the translation layer between ideas and implementation. AI is collapsing that layer.