Hello readers. It's 11/2/25, and I'm procrastinating writing college transfer applications. I'm continuing my work at CW, while applying to transfer universities for starting fall 2026. That would place me in CO '29, back from '27.

Separately, in the trip to Boston College that I wrote about in the previous post, I met a cool girl. We're dating now, she's my girlfriend. She's next to me as I write this, pretty cool. She's studying neuroscience, and likely to be a doctor. We've had some productive conversations, but I don't think she's as interested in AI as I am. I worry that she works and stresses to achieve her job, and by her graduation, the opportunities for humans will be lesser, and her goals to "do something" will be infeasible if based on money earned or some similar impact driven metric (my goals to do something are). I don't know what to think. The nature of achievement will change. I will hate it for a long time, too

I look back at the predictions about AI, what I think has sticked, and what I don't know.

The few things I've heard - the continuous learning problem is pretty difficult, and optimizations are p commoditized. The leading AI labs have seemed to progress pretty similarly with all of their optimizations & access to the four pillars

Incredibly fortunate to be working on the bottleneck as of now, compute. Of course, anything could change at any time, but in a great spot

Still, as far of a reflection of reality goes, individual achievement is in a tricky spot. Even without the solution of continual learning, there's still a huge market for implementation of current models that results in people not being needed. I simply cannot go into specifics, my understanding of the job market for a long time is that there's lots of ineffiencies in offices. Every layer of disconnect from the top introduces a misunderstanding about the amount of work that needs to be done by an individual/team. So maybe jobs will continue for a bit, people masquerading as being in charge of AI? It's like that comic, where the world is just a bunch of AIs telling humans what to say. Can't find it, don't remember it. Is that what's happening now?

Either way, lots of interesting stuff happening right now. Hopefully everything works out.