16/08/2026
I stayed up way past my bedtime a few nights ago writing a LinkedIn post. Somewhere around 1am I had a realization that made me smile.
Early LLMs were built one way: scrape the internet, run it through a neural net, find the patterns. A one way extraction from humanity's output.
But working in Claude Code every day, I'm watching something different happen. Half the custom instructions I wrote months ago, the skills, the workarounds, the "always do X, never do Y" rules I built by hand, are quietly becoming things the model just does natively in the newest versions. The scaffolding I built for it stopped being necessary, because the model generalized it.
That's not scraping. That's absorption of collective effort, in near real time.
Every person fighting with their AI tool, writing a better prompt, building a workaround for its blind spots, that struggle isn't wasted. It's training signal. We are, all of us, quietly building this thing together.
And if that's true, the real opportunity isn't using AI to work alone faster. It's using it to take on projects too ambitious for any one person, or even one company, to attempt solo.
Here's my take, not a fact, just my opinion: that only works if humans specialize.
One person deep in the domain knowledge. Another deep in the AI tooling. Another holding the vision together.
AI doesn't replace that division of labor, in my opinion. It raises the ceiling on what it can produce.
I hope that's the story AI ends up telling. Not isolation under a tsunami of generated content, but millions of people co-authoring something bigger than any of us could build alone.