PART 1: Recursive Lightning

What happens when your hammer starts building better hammers at 3am while you sleep?

Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman revealed something everyone's missing: AI isn't just good at answering questions. It's phenomenal at two civilization-defining things:

writing code and using tools. 

(Yes, the tools can now make tools. It's tools all the way down.)

Here's what breaks our mental models: We think AI progress works like human progress—linear, generational, bottlenecked by biology. Parent teaches child. Master trains apprentice. Knowledge transfers like honey.

But when tools create tools, different physics.

Imagine Excel teaches itself VBA overnight. Before breakfast, VBA builds Python. By lunch, Python creates something indescribable.

No coffee breaks. No learning curves. No "let me sleep on it."

Pure recursive improvement at silicon speed.

Your Monday morning tool becomes Friday's obsolete ancestor. 

It took 40,000 years for the gap between cave paintings and smartphones.

The gap between GPT-4 and [REDACTED]?

Forty days.

We keep debating if AI will plateau... Meanwhile, a script in a server farm taught itself to write better scripts.

Now.

This second.

While you read this sentence.