Sharing my opinion.
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Spoiler: this week quietly ended an era that lasted two hundred and fifty years. Most haven't noticed it yet. This post is about why this is more important than anything you've read this year.

There is a phenomenon that psychologists call adaptation: living next to something abnormal long enough, a person stops noticing it. I catch myself realizing that the news feed of recent years has methodically annihilated my ability to be surprised. If you are familiar with this feeling of background anxiety, when reality has slightly come off its hinges, you are in good company; there are at least half the planet like us. History teaches us one constant: what contemporaries see as a catastrophe, descendants will call a turning point. Did the first Christians or the enthusiasts of 1993, who first clicked on the Mosaic browser, think they were at the dawn of a new world? And here we are again at such a moment, only the scale is fundamentally different!

There are about three dozen people on this planet who, right now, in these weeks and months, are making decisions that shape the world our children will live in. Not presidents—presidents have long turned into a separate, rather tiresome genre of bad reality shows. It's engineers, scientists, researchers, founders of companies whose names are on everyone's lips.

And these people, one after another, within weeks of each other, have started saying something out loud. Something that previously was only spoken in a narrow circle of like-minded people and initiates. But already in March of this year, Jensen Huang—CEO of NVIDIA, a company valued by the market at four trillion dollars and whose chips are literally the neurons of the emerging digital civilization—came on Lex Fridman's podcast. Lex asked him: "When do you think AI will be able to launch, grow, and scale a tech company to a billion dollars? In five years? In ten?" Huang paused for a second and said quietly, almost matter-of-factly: "I think now. I think we have achieved AGI."

Last week, Marc Andreessen—the man who wrote the first commercial browser in 1993 and effectively brought the internet to the masses—posted a short note. Just one phrase, but what a phrase: "AGI is already here, just unevenly distributed." Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, standing at Davos in a session titled "The Day After AGI," stated that in 6-12 months, AI will completely replace the software developer profession, end-to-end. Sam Altman in an Axios interview: "Superintelligence is this close. And it's not a new technology; it's a restructuring of society."

One can argue about the precision of definitions, one can debate that each of them puts something different into the word "AGI." But what is more important than any definitions is how one analyst put it, and I can't help but quote: "The main thing is not whether you agree with the term AGI. The main thing is that the people closest to the hardware and to real deployment of technologies are increasingly talking about autonomy not as a subject of research, but as a ready-made product feature."

This is a fundamental difference, like the difference between "we are working on it" and "we have done it and are dealing with the consequences." And while you and I are processing the scale of what has been said, somewhere in an office, in a specific work chat, something very earthly is already happening—the first small push of what those thirty people mean.

In Shandong province, in a gaming media company, an HR manager recently resigned. An ordinary story: she left, said goodbye, handed in her badge. Only the next morning, her digital twin appeared in the corporate chat. The same communication style, the same logic of responses, the same phrasing, the same tone. Colleagues couldn't figure out for several hours that they were talking to a non-human. Not because the twin was particularly smart, but because the original was particularly... (how?) ... documented!

This is not a horror story from a dystopia; I'll leave a link to the source in the comments. This is April 2026, and it has a name – "colleague.skill."