PREVIEW: The Friday Edition. - Let’s see if AI can do my job.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This month, the artificial intelligence discourse hit a new fever pitch.
It started with a viral post on X, titled “Something Big Is Happening,” which racked up tens of millions of views. The post was written by Matt Shumer, the CEO of the AI personal assistant company HyperWrite. It’s long, but it’s worth your time. The thrust of the post is this: Artificial intelligence is improving much faster than most anyone seems to understand, and the rate of improvement is accelerating. AI’s capability has exploded in the last six months, Shumer says, and people who played with AI tools two years or 12 months or six weeks ago have no idea how much better they are today.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm your host, Isaac Salon, on today's episode, we're going to be talking about whether AI can do my job. |
| 0:33.5 | That's right. |
| 0:34.5 | This month, the artificial intelligence discourse hit a new fever pitch. |
| 0:39.8 | It started with a viral post on X, titled Something Big is Happening, which racked up tens of millions of views. |
| 0:48.2 | The post was written by Matt Schumer, the CEO of the AI Personal Assistance Company Hyper Right. It's long, but the piece is worth your time |
| 0:57.2 | if you get the chance. The thrust of the post is this. Artificial intelligence is improving, |
| 1:03.3 | much faster than most anyone seems to understand, and the rate of improvement is accelerating. |
| 1:09.1 | AI's capability has exploded in the last six months, Schumer says, |
| 1:13.5 | and people who played with AI tools two years ago or 12 months ago or six weeks ago have no |
| 1:18.8 | idea how much better they are today. To make his point, Schumer described how he, a programmer, |
| 1:25.3 | is basically not needed for any of the programming tasks anymore. |
| 1:29.8 | He gives the AI instructions, it codes something, it writes its own tests, it runs those tests, |
| 1:35.3 | and then it fixes the mistakes it finds. He just sits back and watches. |
| 1:40.0 | Millions of white-collar jobs are on the verge of being wiped off the map, Schumer argues. |
| 1:44.7 | Among them, journalism and content creation, legal analysis, software engineering, financial |
| 1:49.8 | analysis, medical analysis, and customer service. Schumer's piece headlined a wave of alarming |
| 1:55.7 | AI news, including new safety reports about artificial intelligence recognizing when it was being |
| 2:00.8 | tested and adjusting its behavior. More resignations from people who including new safety reports about artificial intelligence recognizing when it was being tested |
| 2:01.2 | and adjusting its behavior. More resignations from people who work on safety at major AI companies. |
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