Okay. Are you sick of hearing about computers exceeding human capabilities? I mean, perhaps that’s part of the normal arch of the human existence; as you get older, you think about new technology against the backdrop of the past. This is likely unavoidable for most people, who recall in real-time, the difficulties of their past. “That’s not how I did it”, “You wouldn’t have survived in my day”, “That’s all rubbish” might be some of the naysayers for AI. I’m honestly not sure where I fall on the spectrum, as I believe there is a good point on either side of the argument itself. On one hand, there is a very obvious ascension in power dynamics derived from AI. On the other, AI promises to solve problems that were conceivably difficult to solve with teams of software engineers and academics in very little time.
I believe that we’ve just seen the Rosetta Stone for software access released to the world
In fact, I was able to make 5 classic arcade games in excel in just a few hours working with GPT-5. That’s wild. Those games were: (PW: ChatGPT2025!)
Sam Altman’s claim that GPT-5 makes software-on-demand is quite literally true. In previous models, I found myself making far more edits to code to make things work. In GPT-5, I made far less adjustments. In fact, GPT-5 actually felt like working with a knowledgeable software engineer with an incalculable diversity of knowledge, rather than a junior or mid-level developer who needs lots of context to dive into deep projects.
If you’re not a programmer, this may not resonate that much with you, but in terms of what this means for equity in access to software, I believe that we’ve just seen the Rosetta Stone for software access released to the world.
I won’t offer any other critique of GPT-5’s capabilities here, but caution that there is tremendous power in seizing the opportunity to access the same capability to change the world for good, as there is for evil. My hope remains in Jesus, that no matter how close this may resemble the tower of babel, that people remember who they are in Him.
Secretly, (well, not so secretly now), I hope that this AI revolution will allow people to connect more, because they’ll worry less about trying to get ahead, because AI has the capability of being a great equalizer, as long as it remains accessible to everyone as it is now.
