Everything is accelerating.
There aren’t enough hours in the day.
I’ve spent my life in technology and at the moment, there’s a way in which I regret it, but in a new way, a different way from standard regret. I don’t really have words for what it all feels like these days.
When people talk about black holes they invariably do a thought experiment in which someone falls into a black hole and the gravity differential between their feet and their head is such that they are torn apart, despite the fact that they are, in their entirety, accelerating into the void at an incredible rate—regardless of which piece you’re talking about.
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No, I haven’t just been sitting on the sidelines.
I have multiple local LLMs running and I have paid OpenAI and Anthropic accounts (the latter at “Max”) with API access as well. I can write software at an alarming rate now. Well, the LLMs can write software at an alarming rate if there is a clever architect to act as product owner and do what is effectively ticket-writing.
But I’m sitting here now prepping a headless micro machine with a fat bunch of ram and SSD and four cores to sit on my fiber and run OpenClaw.
Staying “current” any longer is like trying to hang on to the outside of a rocketship with your figernails as it hurtles toward escape velocity.
It is almost impossible to hang on, the rate of acceleration and the forces at work are so high. If you don’t manage to hang on, you will fall back to Earth, with catastrophic consequences. But at the same time, if you do manage to hang on, you will escape the atmosphere and Earth’s gravity successfully—and then suffocate, because there is nothing for you up there, and you are not a robust enough creature to be spaceworthy.
That’s AI in 2026.
I work with AI all day, every day. I am typing in a panic and not keeping up. I am under tremendous pressure to AI faster. I am standing up agents and bots. And yet I increasingly don’t like it, am deeply concerned about yet, and yet am equally concerned about not doing it.
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As a species, we are falling into the black hole that is machine intelligence.
We are accelerating toward the singularity at the center of the void, but the gravity is so immense that what is happening at the feet is an exponentially growing distance from what is happening at the head.
The general public has no idea what’s coming. People on YouTube are still making “AI is all hype” videos. Because mostly they’re using a chat bot on the free plan and asking it questions that involve taste and cultural judgment.
They have yet to see the case in which you give it orders and AI, which increasingly a collective, not a single platform, goes away and just doesfeeling inappropriately and despite yourself… it can not feel in kind.
The non-sentient computing resource is the target of feelings. The sentient human soul is not the subject of any feelings in response.
That’s our relationship with AI—the one that will become the dominant relationship of the future of humanity.
For however long we last.
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When everyday work at your everyday job becomes a matter of philosophy, you start to think maybe it’s more sound to chop wood and carry water.