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ToxSec's avatar

I spent a good chunk of time creating an AI assistant for a very specific use case. It worked very well and for six months an entire team relied on it. It's already obsolete. The AI space moves really fast.

I like your attitude with this. Being OK with that and using as a learning experience is the way to approach things.

Chris Tyson's avatar

Thanks, appreciate your comment.

As you say, the pace of change in this field is fast. I've already got Manus doing CRUD on a Pinecone vector store by only giving it the credentials and intent - it's writing code on the fly and executing the operations without error. It's frightening how good it is.

At this rate, anyone who's even picked up vibe coding is a dinosaur!

ToxSec's avatar

This is absolutely true. Just for fun I looked back at January 2025 and the things it was capable of seemed trivial. One year later it's hard to describe how far we've come. Now imagine two or three more years. We really are experiencing exponential increases.

Smart World Education's avatar

Hey Chris,

this is a wonderful article to be honest It’s one of the factual based articles which makes understand where we go. Your project was great but f you would have the power of money you would have build manus with an army of coders. We easily forget systems logical build never intelligent build. Your idea recreating reasoning vector saves in a biological sensual safe was great but it’s like everything it’s not intelligent. The intelligent is your brain creating such ideas. Respect.

Sarah Payne's avatar

This was a good read, thanks for sharing! I’m deep in the architectural weeds and have been itching to find a Substack that meets me where I’m at.

Neural Foundry's avatar

The biological memory architecture becoming a configuration task rather than a multi-month coding project is exactly the inflection point everyone's missing. What makes this particuarly powerful is the shift from procedural implementation to declarative intent, where the platform handles executon while you define constraints. I've seen similar compression in other domains where abstraction layers mature, but the speed here is unprecendented. The Zapier unbundling analogy works well because it highlights that the value is migrating from connection logic to outcome orchestration.

Chris Tyson's avatar

It's comforting to know someone else sees the same things. Thanks for commenting. Much appreciated.

AI Governance Lead ⚡'s avatar

It happens! But keep in mind that people also want alternatives, privacy and ‘small’tech options too.

Chris Tyson's avatar

You're right. Perhaps now we have the perfect topic for a podcast eh?