There is a moment — everyone who has had it recognizes it — when you first see an AI agent autonomously do something for you. The Oh Shit moment. You cannot unsee it.
And it divides us. Into people who have had it, and the rest.
On one side stand programmers — just a few years ago one of the best-paid professions in the world — who have watched their work tip in a single year from 20% AI and 80% typing themselves to the reverse, and then further, until nearly everything is done by AI and they are only giving directions.
Next to them stands a growing group of people, myself included, who could never code but since last Christmas break have suddenly been building complete applications through Claude Code.
And then there is the rest. Almost everyone. They have no idea what is coming for them. I do not think I am exaggerating.
I notice it in my own work. I talk to AI bots all day. Some write code, some write messages to others, some research things — it all blends together. My computer is no longer a collection of separate apps I click through. It is a conversation with something that does things for me.
The creator of Claude Code says that virtually one hundred percent of their code is written by their own AI.
Ryan Dahl, the man who invented Node.js — the system that much of the modern internet runs on — says: the era of humans writing code is over.
Even Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, the operating system underneath virtually every server, smartphone, and supercomputer in the world, is vibe-coding.
The people who built the foundations of the internet are putting down their tools.
And the numbers confirm what they already know. Four percent of all public GitHub commits — the world’s largest software platform — is now written by AI. The rise is so steep that if you extend that line it will be twenty percent by the end of the year. The number of new apps in the iOS App Store rose sixty percent in the past six months.
And then you might think: why should I care, I do not dream of becoming a programmer. But that is exactly the point.
An AI that is good at programming turns out to automatically be the foundation for an AI that is good at working. One that makes a plan and executes it. That picks up tools and deploys them. That knows when to dig deep and when to deliver. That clicks buttons, gathers information, and turns it into emails, charts, presentations.
As a knowledge worker who has had the Oh Shit moment, you know: this is also about me.
Maybe AI is a financial bubble. But the technical capabilities are real, and staggeringly good. And already an order of magnitude better than two months ago.
We do not have a plan. Oh Shit.