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Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds

Ivan Zhao · 22 Dec 2025

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  1. Every era is shaped by its miracle material. Steel forged the Gilded Age. Semiconductors switched on the Digital Age. Now AI has arrived as infinite minds.
  2. Because knowledge work is more fragmented and less verifiable.
  3. We want humans to supervise the loops from a leveraged point, not be in them.
  4. AI is steel for organizations.
  5. I think the knowledge economy is about to undergo the same transformation.
  6. We are still in the waterwheel phase of AI, bolting chatbots onto workflows designed for humans.

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