He's referring to the reality that AI helps you pick up and finish tasks that you otherwise would have put off. I see this all day every day with my side projects as well as security and customer escalations that come into my team. It's not that Giant Project X was done six times as fast. It's more like we were able to do six small but consequential bug fixes and security updates while we continued to push on the large feature.

My personal project output has gone up dramatically since I started using AI, because I can now use times of night where I'm otherwise too mentally tired, to work with AI to crank through a first draft of a change that I can then iterate on later. This has allowed me to start actually implementing side projects that I've had ideas about for years and build software for myself in a way I never could previously (at least not since I had kids).

I know it's not some amazing GDP-improving miracle, but in my personal life it's been incredibly rewarding.

Not really. A lot of new amazing Qwen models just dropped.

Yes, I love this idea. I've heard it framed as "Transparency for the powerful and privacy for the weak."

Just to follow up, Schneier thinks something is weird as well.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/us-disrupts-m...