Archive - Takeoff Tracker

o3 Should Have Been Called GPT-5

OpenAI’s terrible naming convention comes back to bite them

14 hrs ago •

Stop Calling Everything AGI

Our language isn’t keeping up with our language models

Aug 6 •

July 2025

Would You Work for an AI?

Many people will and most kinda already do

Jul 21 •

Your Kids Aren’t Going to Learn to Drive

Did you learn to ride a horse?

Jul 10 •

Chat Ex Machina

Replacing Doom-Scrolling with LLM-Looping

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Abundance ≠ Altruism

Don't Expect AGI to Lead to UBI

Jun 30 •

You are fine with AI stealing people’s jobs

Do you still pay a human to book your flights?

Jun 21 •

o3 is Smarter Than My Friends

And my friends are pretty smart

Jun 18 •

Vibe Coding Is a Real Thing

Agentic AI coding tools are flattening the learning curve and unlocking a wave of new use cases

Jun 17 •

7 Reasons 'DeepSeek Moments' Pour Gasoline on the AI Progress Fire

Using less is good, using more is better

Jun 16 •

AGI Timelines Keep Moving—Toward Us

Heads up, if you aren't watching this on a week to week basis

Jun 13 •

AGI is coming, but I still have to unload the dishwasher

Introducing Takeoff Tracker

Jun 12 •

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