The computer is using the computer
talking to a group of offline people about AI recently
— frye (@___frye) August 5, 2026
it’s cliche and perhaps gauche to say “nobody knows what’s coming”. but that’s an understatement. nobody knows what’s already here
the avg person sees AI the same as it was 3 years ago - a moderately helpful chatbot. if you use gpt for recipes and search, your experience has not meaningfully changed since 2023
today the frontier is autonomous coding and agentic task completion. aka, the computer using the computer. this is impossible to explain to most people because they have no idea what code is or how computers work