Guillermo Rauch @rauchg
— web clipping, 9 words — published 2026-02-08
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**Guillermo Rauch** @rauchg [2026-02-08](https://x.com/rauchg/status/2020616857561284848)
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Guillermo Rauch
2 captures, most recent first. Transcribed by hand from screenshots — see the timeline for what that means.
Guillermo Rauch @rauchg
Guillermo Rauch ✓ @rauchg · 6h
10 days into 2026:
- Terence Tao announces GPT & Aristotle solve Erdős problem autonomously
- Linus Torvalds concedes vibe coding is better than hand-coding for his non-kernel project
- DHH walks back "AI can't code" from Lex podcast 6 months later
An acceleration is coming the likes of which humanity has never experienced before
> QUOTED (embedded git commit screenshot):
torvalds committed 3 days ago
Merge branch 'antigravity'
This is Google Antigravity fixing up my visualization tool (which was also generated with help from google, but of the normal kind).
It mostly went smoothly, although I had to figure out what the problem with using the builtin rectangle select was. After telling antigravity to just do a custom RectangleSelector, things went much better.
Is this much better than I could do by hand? Sure is.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet compiling anecdotal signals of accelerating AI capability adoption in early 2026 — Terence Tao crediting GPT+Aristotle with autonomously solving an Erdős problem, Linus Torvalds endorsing AI-assisted ("vibe") coding via a real git commit message, and DHH reversing a prior "AI can't code" stance. Relevant to Nathan's interest in tracking empirical signals of AI progress/takeoff speed (cf. his singularity-tracking notes on METR/Epoch data).
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