From Bayou Renaissance Man, https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
… you might not have noticed that reality is catching up to prediction rather faster than we might want to believe.
A couple of weeks ago I cited Matt Shumer’s blog article about the current state of artificial intelligence (AI). His article went viral, and has been quoted in many mainstream news media outlets. Here are a couple of excerpts, followed by real-world examples of how his predictions are already happening in the corporate world.
I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just… appears. Not a rough draft I need to fix. The finished thing. I tell the AI what I want, walk away from my computer for four hours, and come back to find the work done. Done well, done better than I would have done it myself, with no corrections needed. A couple of months ago, I was going back and forth with the AI, guiding it, making edits. Now I just describe the outcome and leave.
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The experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from “helpful tool” to “does my job better than I do”, is the experience everyone else is about to have. Law, finance, medicine, accounting, consulting, writing, design, analysis, customer service. Not in ten years. The people building these systems say one to five years. Some say less. And given what I’ve seen in just the last couple of months, I think “less” is more likely.
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Amodei has said that AI models “substantially smarter than almost all humans at almost all tasks” are on track for 2026 or 2027.
Let that land for a second. If AI is smarter than most PhDs, do you really think it can’t do most office jobs?
Think about what that means for your work.
Go read the rest of the article. I have noticed an increase in using AI in medical charting for diagnoses and patient treatment plans. I will admit using AI in diagnoses is removing doctor’s biases and refusal at times for alternative treatments and alternative protocols that could benefit patients.