Big Questions with Cal Fussman Something Big Is Happening
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Feb 17, 2026 A dramatic AI warning is read aloud, framing rapid progress as a personal and societal inflection point. The conversation highlights how modern models build apps, write code, and even shape their own future. Jobs across law, medicine, finance, and creative fields are mapped as vulnerable. Practical steps and a one-hour-a-day experiment urge early adoption and adaptation.
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Code-First Unlocks Recursive Improvement
- Coding-first strategy accelerates AI self-improvement.
- AI that writes code helps build smarter future models faster.
Model Helped Make Itself
- OpenAI disclosed GPT-5.3 Codex helped create itself.
- Schumer reads the documentation claiming the model debugged and managed parts of its own development.
The Intelligence Explosion Pattern
- Each AI generation speeds the next, creating an accelerating feedback loop.
- Researchers call this accelerating process an intelligence explosion.
