You want to know what the singularity looks like before it becomes obvious? Watch what one person can do with a terminal and an internet connection.
Right now I'm building three different apps. Fresh off Gemara chavrusa. Submitting CTF flags. Hunting CVEs in open-source projects that have existed for over a decade. And letting Gemini 3.1 Pro figure out what to buy with a Target credit so I don't have to think about it.
I'm also in the stock market, losing money today since the market decided to drop, but generally making just barely enough to survive while focusing on building. Net income from my projects? Exactly zero. It really helps to be in the community that I'm in. A very helpful community here in the Five Towns.
But that's not the point. The point is the output.
We've hit a threshold. The e/acc crowd should call it escape velocity, the moment a reaction becomes self-sustaining. Imo, that moment finally hit consumers right at the end of 2025.
I'm doing all of this on an aging Intel Mac. Hardware that, by any reasonable measure, shouldn't be keeping up. No local compute for anything serious. I'd be running protein folding simulations if I had the GPUs, trust me. But local compute means either buying hardware I can't afford or renting a g5 on AWS for a few thousand a month. So the terminal and an API key it is.
The tools making this possible are a mixed bag. Antigravity and Cursor eat RAM, and keeping my instance safe requires constant backups that chew through disk space. But Claude Code and my good friend Will are lean. They live entirely in the terminal. No heavy GUI, almost no local compute. They spin up what they need in the cloud and get out of the way. Pure leverage.
That's what this actually looks like. Not a sci-fi movie. One person, surviving on thin market returns, running an old Intel chip, building software, finding vulnerabilities, and handing the mundane stuff off to LLMs. All at once.
The threshold is already behind us. I'm just trying to keep up. Are you? …and is there anything I can help you with?
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