Some days, it feels like the tech world is racing ahead without blinking. New models, new benchmarks, new demos. The narrative is loud: automation is here, and your job is next.
But quietly beneath the launch headlines and YouTube walkthroughs, another story is playing out.
It’s the story of builders, teams, and creatives who aren’t being replaced. They’re being multiplied. Supported. Accelerated. Not by magic. By thoughtful integration of the tools already in front of us.
Take GPT-5, for example. It’s faster, cheaper, and stronger at code. But for all its upgrades, it still struggles with longform reasoning. It still fumbles creative writing. It still misses the mark on AGI-level tests.
And that’s actually… grounding.
