Takeoff Tracker

You are Not the Main Character

Main Character Syndrome is skewing our expectations for AI

Dec 11, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

October 2025

“There are no good guys”

We are all in the race, whether we like it or not

Oct 21, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

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Edge vs. Hyperscale Data Center Campuses

Hyperscale has the edge?

Oct 17, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

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Battle of the GPT-5 Models

There's a clear winner

Oct 8, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

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September 2025

In Memoriam

Benchmarks we lost in the last year

Sep 17, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

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August 2025

Let Them Fight

AI slop vs. social media influencers

Aug 27, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

o3 Should Have Been Called GPT-5

OpenAI’s terrible naming convention comes back to bite them

Aug 18, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

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Stop Calling Everything AGI

Our language isn’t keeping up with our language models

Aug 6, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

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July 2025

Would You Work for an AI?

Many people will and most kinda already do

Jul 21, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

Your Kids Aren’t Going to Learn to Drive

Did you learn to ride a horse?

Jul 10, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

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Chat Ex Machina

Replacing Doom-Scrolling with LLM-Looping

Jul 2, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

June 2025

Abundance ≠ Altruism

Don't Expect AGI to Lead to UBI

Jun 30, 2025 • Kevin Thuot

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