In my last note, I wrote about how humanity has been on an exponential path for a long time. The singularity is just the next step in that curve.
People define a singularity as the point where intelligence becomes self-improving. The thing is, that’s already happening.
Coding is the clearest example. Developers aren’t working alone anymore. We’re writing code with systems that learn from our code. Every prompt, every bug fix, every repo makes the next model better. It is already writing code end to end for you. That is self-improvement in the loop, and we’re in it.
We’re not observers waiting for the singularity to happen. We’re part of it.
I’ve seen it in my own work. My learning speed has gone up several times since using AI daily. Not just for technical work, but for everything that helps me be better at it: leading projects, running experiments, collaborating across teams. I’ve learned a lot of that through ChatGPT. Those gains feed back into how well I can contribute to building better AI. It compounds in both directions.
The loop is already closed.
So the singularity isn’t a future event. We’re already in it. The real question isn’t when but rather what. What does it mean to be human in a world where intelligence is shared? What is the goal of all this progress?
Answering that might be the key to understanding what true alignment actually means.