AI summary of the article :
Matt Shumer, founder and CEO of an AI company (Otherside AI / HyperWrite), published a personal essay on February 9, 2026, warning his non-tech friends and family that something transformative is happening in AI right now. He points to the February 5, 2026 releases of advanced models like GPT-5.3 Codex and Opus 4.6, which can autonomously handle complex projects (such as writing, iterating on, and testing entire codebases) with real judgment and taste — shifting AI from a tool to something closer to an independent, highly capable worker.
He compares the current moment to early 2020 before COVID exploded, arguing this “intelligence explosion” will disrupt cognitive/white-collar jobs across fields like law, finance, medicine, and more within 1–5 years, and urges people to immediately start experimenting with frontier AI tools, adapt their workflows, build financial buffers, and rethink education around adaptability to avoid being blindsided.
Of course the caveat always is, “Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean that you should.”