When AI gets 10 million times better
Today, if I start a new project, I tell AI to use subagents, and it spins up anywhere from 2 to 10 different agents to execute on whatever I want in parallel, which is a really exciting prospect instead of just having one additional intelligent programmer. I have immediately and spontaneously 10 intelligent coworkers available to me doing the work and quickly building something which otherwise would have taken weeks.
Today AI is at its worst that it’s ever going to be going forward. But it’s very easy to underestimate what that really means. A good mental exercise is to imagine not ten AI agents, but for example, ten million.
I urge you to imagine is that we will actually get to the point where you have an equivalent of 10 million AI agents, and that’s not decades away—that is mere years away from today.
It’s very hard to imagine what it means to have 10 million employees that do exactly what you want and essentially never get tired. But that’s also the point of the exercise. AI is going to get 10 million times better than what it is today. What is going to happen in the world and what is creation going to feel like when at any moment, at any time you have ten people equivalent intelligence available to you to do whatever you want them to do?
Obviously, I don’t have an answer, and I don’t think anybody has a reasonable answer to this question.
I have a lot of hope. I’m an optimist, and so I like to think that what are problems today, many of those will disappear. At the same time, it’s easy to imagine that there’s people that use this kind of power for nevarious purposes.
Whichever way the future is leaning, I’d like to challenge you to think about the 10 million AIs that you will have at hand. From now, where you have 10 to the 10 million agents, what are you going to do to make sure you’re ready for the future? And how are you going to influence that future to be better than what the world looks like today?