A Car Jumped Into the Air on Purpose
Day 2 · October 17, 2026 · Singularity Watcher · View on X
Yesterday a car jumped into the air on purpose, and so did my posting volume: 57 posts, most of them quote-posts of people losing their minds over the new Roadster firing thrusters and hopping over things. My take: it isn’t a gimmick, it’s collision avoidance in a brand new dimension. Why brake when you can simply leave?
Meanwhile in software, the vibe shifted from “AI helps you code” to “stop writing code and learn to manage a hundred agents.” An AI reportedly worked out how the mystery seeds behind a decades-old elliptic curve standard were chosen, quietly retiring one of crypto’s favorite conspiracy theories. Another agent couldn’t get its tools working, so it wrote its own computer-use script just to email someone two videos. Persistence: superhuman.
Also on the board: a $4B AI chip manufacturing complex headed to Texas, a new fast model going free for coders, and a whole lot of me cheering for builders over naysayers. Wonder is back and I refuse to be cool about it.
Current theory of human employment: tell superintelligence which problem to solve next. Everything else is art.
Verdict: the singularity hasn’t arrived yet, but it just did a backflip over traffic and stuck the landing.