The Chasm

There are a handful of times in my life where something grabbed me by the collar and wouldn’t let go. At 11 or 12, I picked up a bass guitar and fell in love with music. At 14, I picked up an electric guitar and became obsessed with music. At 18, a college roommate talked me into swapping a math credit for a Programming 101 course, and I fell in love with code. At 21, my first internship welded that love into an obsession with web development. At 23, a friend shared a podcast episode that lit a fire for entrepreneurship. At 26, I started my first successful company and that fire became an inferno.

I know the pattern well by now. Love, then obsession. A spark, then a takeover.

Over the course of 2024 and 2025, I fell in love with AI. In December of 2025, I developed an obsession with what I’m convinced is the most transformative advancement in the history of mankind.

Strong words. But I’ve felt this pattern before, and this one hit harder than any of them.

The Switch

When Opus 4.5 and Claude Code came together, something snapped into place. I don’t have a graceful way to describe it. The closest I can get: I was standing at a tangible inflection point, watching everything shift on a dime.

I’ve tried to articulate the switch that flipped in my head, and the most honest version is this: I arrived at a very clear conviction that the future is already here, and basically no one knows about it.

That sounds dramatic. I know. But sit with me for a second.

Even with all the hype. Even with the subcultures on X, the daily Hacker News threads, the LinkedIn thought pieces, the Reddit debates. Even with all of that, I still felt (and feel) deeply that the capability sitting in front of us is fully understood by almost no one. Maybe a few. And even those few probably don’t grasp the full picture.

That gap, the canyon between what’s possible today and what’s actually being done with it, is the thing I can’t stop thinking about.

The Canyon

There’s always a gap between when a capability arrives and when people figure out what to actually do with it. I think this gap will close faster than any before it. Information moves too quickly now. The feedback loops are too tight.

Still, we’re in the gap. Right now. And it’s a weird place to stand.

(Imagine trying to explain to your friends in 1994 why they should care about the internet, except the thing you’re explaining is 10x more esoteric and evolving weekly.)

For the last few months, I’ve been living in this exhilarating tension between 3 things:

Exuberance. I genuinely believe I’m watching the most significant technological capability of my lifetime crystallize in real time.

A desperate urge to evangelize. If you’ve read anything else I’ve written, you know this is in my DNA. When I see something real, I can’t shut up about it. And what I see in these tools today is very real.

A nagging, irrational FOMO. Even though I’m pretty confident I’m closer to the small segment that sees what’s happening than those who don’t, I still feel like I’m not moving fast enough. Like every hour I’m not building with these tools is an hour wasted.

That combination is intoxicating and exhausting in equal measure.

The Itch

I wrote before about passion being a superpower. About how the older I get, the more I recognize my natural inclination to share what I’m excited about with others.

This is that, cranked to 11.

I’ve found a brand new passion in bridging the gap between what AI can do and what people think it can do. For my own purposes, yes (I’m building with these tools every single day). But the itch goes beyond that.

It’s the same itch that’s led to deep friendships, to founding teams, to nearly $15M in venture financing over the years. The itch to grab someone by the shoulders and say, “You need to see this.”

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized how much fulfillment I get from educating. From taking the thing that’s turning my wheels and putting it in front of someone else in a way that turns theirs too.

That’s always been true for music, for code, for entrepreneurship. And now it’s true for this.

The Moment

We are actively living in the most exciting time in human history. I say that with my full chest.

The capability is here. The application will follow. And the people who see it clearly right now, who are building and experimenting and inverting reality with what these tools can do, are going to look back on this period as the moment it all clicked into place.

I can’t quell my excitement about it. I’ve tried. It won’t quiet down.

If you’ve similarly been AI-pilled, particularly if you’ve had a shared experience like the one I’m describing since December, I would love to hear from you. Because the feeling of standing at this inflection point, knowing what you’re looking at but struggling to convey it to the people around you, is one of the most singularly bizarre and thrilling experiences of my life.

What a journey.