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  1. Jun 2026
    1. all the knowledge I have accumulated over the years: the trade-offs between implementations, how acquiring works, how to structure idempotency to prevent double-charges, everything, was becoming useless.

      大多数人认为深厚的领域专业知识是软件工程师不可替代的核心竞争力,但作者认为这些知识正在变得无用,因为LLMs能够快速获取和应用这些专业知识。这与行业普遍认为的'领域专家价值会随时间增长'的观点相悖。

    1. The geography of this work matters. Frontier RSI is being attempted, almost exclusively, inside the world's two largest compute clusters.

      大多数人认为AI发展是全球化且无地域限制的,但作者强调地理位置的重要性,指出前沿递归自我改进研究几乎只在世界两大计算集群中进行。这一观点挑战了AI发展无国界的普遍认知,暗示国家战略和地理位置将重新定义AI竞争格局。

    2. Responsible RSI is not a constraint on capability; it is what makes capability sustainable.

      大多数人认为安全性和责任约束会限制AI的能力发展,但作者认为负责任的递归自我改进实际上使AI能力更加可持续。这一观点挑战了AI安全与进步之间存在权衡的主流认知,暗示安全措施实际上能促进长期发展。

    3. We must leapfrog the current paradigm. History shows us how Japan's historical dominance in manufacturing was not achieved through abundant natural resources but by fundamentally redesigning the institution of the factory floor.

      大多数人认为AI发展需要大量计算资源和数据积累,但作者认为日本可以通过创新设计而非资源投入来领导AI发展,就像日本制造业的成功不是依靠自然资源而是通过重新设计工厂系统一样。这种观点挑战了当前AI行业依赖大规模计算的主流认知。

    1. For routine data prediction Opus 4.7—a general-purpose model without chemistry-specific fine-tuning—is now as good as or better than ChemDraw and MestReNova on average

      大多数人认为通用AI模型在专业化学任务上必然落后于专门训练的化学软件,但作者发现Claude在没有经过化学专门微调的情况下已经能够匹敌甚至超越专业软件。这表明现代AI模型的通用能力已经足够强大,可以在特定专业领域挑战专门工具的地位,打破了AI只能作为辅助工具的传统认知。

    2. Claude does it from the same high-resolution mass spectrum and 1D peak list a chemist would paste into a chat, with no setup

      大多数人认为复杂的分子结构 elucidation 需要专门的软件设置、2D NMR数据和专业知识,但作者认为Claude可以直接使用化学家粘贴到聊天中的高分辨率质谱和1D峰值列表来完成这一任务,无需任何设置。这挑战了化学分析需要复杂工作流程的传统认知,展示了AI如何简化专业工作流程。

    3. Opus 4.7 matched the experimentally reported splitting pattern more often than any other tool

      大多数人认为专业化学软件在预测NMR峰分裂模式方面会比通用AI模型更准确,因为这是它们的核心功能。但作者发现Claude Opus 4.7在预测氢原子NMR峰的分裂模式方面表现优于所有其他工具,包括专业软件。这表明AI模型在理解化学细微结构特征方面可能已经超越了传统专业工具。

    4. a general-purpose model without chemistry-specific fine-tuning—is now as good as or better than ChemDraw and MestReNova on average

      大多数人认为专业化学软件需要专门训练才能在专业领域表现优异,但作者认为Claude这样没有经过化学专门微调的通用模型已经能够匹敌甚至超越专业化学软件。这是因为Claude的多模态能力和推理能力使其能够直接从期刊图表或手绘结构中读取化学信息,而不依赖预处理的分子数据库,这挑战了专业软件必须领域专门化的传统认知。

    1. Tracking token costs is a trillions-of-rows-a-month data problem. You can't just stick that into whatever spreadsheet or even basic tool.

      大多数人认为AI成本管理可以通过现有工具和简单方法解决,但作者指出token成本追踪是一个每月需要处理数万亿行数据的复杂问题,需要从根本上重新思考工具和系统。这与行业对成本管理难度的普遍认知相悖。

    2. Whether extreme spend pays off comes down to the ultimate business value of shipped code (e.g. revenue), which most companies still can't measure.

      大多数人认为增加AI投入会直接转化为业务价值和收入,但作者指出大多数公司实际上无法衡量AI投入与业务价值之间的直接联系。这与AI投资决策的主流逻辑相悖,质疑了当前AI支出模式的合理性。

    3. Even though per-token prices have fallen, the push for more AI adoption and increasingly autonomous agents have driven token consumption higher and higher.

      大多数人认为AI成本下降会使AI应用更经济实惠,但作者认为尽管单位token价格下降,但AI使用量激增导致总成本反而上升。这与大多数人对AI成本下降的预期相悖,揭示了行业面临的成本悖论。

    1. Everybody wants to be the first to do something and just push things out without careful scrutiny and red-teaming.

      大多数人认为企业安全漏洞是技术能力不足的结果,但作者认为这更多是企业文化和管理决策的问题。这个观点挑战了将安全失败简单归因于技术缺陷的主流叙事,指出企业追求'第一'而非'安全'的文化才是根本原因。

    2. Security and utility always have a trade-off

      大多数人认为AI安全可以通过技术手段完美解决,但作者认为安全与实用性之间存在根本性权衡。这个观点挑战了技术乐观主义,指出公司在追求AI能力的同时必然会牺牲某些安全措施,暗示AI安全问题的解决不仅仅是技术问题,更是商业决策问题。

    3. Everybody wants to be the first to do something and just push things out without careful scrutiny and red-teaming

      大多数人认为公司会优先考虑AI系统的安全性,但作者指出行业实际上存在'先发布后修复'的危险心态。这一观点挑战了科技公司负责任创新的公众形象,揭示了商业竞争压力如何导致安全让位于速度的行业现实。

    4. Security and utility always have a trade-off

      大多数人认为AI安全可以通过技术手段完美解决,但作者指出安全与实用性之间存在根本性权衡。这一观点挑战了行业对'绝对安全'的追求,暗示公司可能为了功能性和竞争力而故意接受某些安全风险,这与安全至上的行业共识相悖。

    5. There, AI was the target rather than the attacker, and the method was far simpler than anything Mythos would cook up.

      大多数人认为AI安全威胁主要来自超级智能系统作为攻击者的复杂攻击,但作者认为AI本身作为被攻击目标且使用简单方法才是更现实的威胁。这一观点挑战了行业对AI安全的主流认知,表明真正的风险可能不是来自超级AI黑客,而是来自对现有AI系统的简单利用。

    1. The denial of accelerated S&P 500 entry for SpaceX comes just days after Morningstar analysts described SpaceX as having been 'significantly overvalued' in the lead-up to its IPO. The investment research firm valued SpaceX at $780 billion—less than half of SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO goal—primarily based on the strengths of SpaceX's Starlink satellite service and rocket launch business.

      大多数人可能认为SpaceX的IPO估值反映了其真实价值,但作者引用分析师观点认为其被'显著高估',这挑战了市场对科技巨头估值的主流认知。这暗示市场可能存在非理性繁荣,特别是对于那些同时涉足多个热门领域(太空和AI)的公司。

    2. Swift entry into the S&P 500 would have triggered $14 billion of passive fund buying for SpaceX, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. The investment research arm of Bloomberg also estimated that OpenAI could have gained more than $8 billion, and Anthropic could have netted $4.6 billion from similar passive buying sprees triggered by their S&P 500 entries.

      大多数人认为指数基金投资是稳定和安全的,但作者暗示这种被动投资机制可能导致大量资金迅速流入高风险、未盈利的AI公司,这可能加剧市场泡沫。这挑战了指数投资作为'安全'选择的普遍认知,揭示了被动投资如何可能放大市场风险。

    3. Such rule changes would have accommodated SpaceX's plan to only offer approximately 3 percent of its IPO shares to public investors, and the fact that SpaceX is currently unprofitable with a growing debt load that has reached $29 billion because of its spending spree on AI infrastructure.

      大多数人认为高市值公司应该能够获得特殊待遇,特别是当它们代表未来趋势时,但作者认为S&P 500坚持要求盈利能力和足够的公众持股比例,这表明传统金融标准仍然优先于市场炒作和未来潜力。这挑战了当前科技行业'先烧钱再盈利'的商业模式共识。

    4. The news will likely come as a relief to people concerned about passive investor money and people's retirement savings plans having greater exposure to the market risks associated with SpaceX's big bet on AI and speculative orbital data center plans.

      大多数人通常认为将更多资金引入热门科技股是好事,但作者认为拒绝SpaceX入列S&P 500对那些担心退休金风险的人来说是一种'解脱'。这挑战了主流认知,即科技巨头总是能为投资者带来回报,暗示过度投资高风险科技股可能损害普通人的财务安全。

    1. Serifs can help build that conviction, or at least the illusion of it. Times New Roman itself was commissioned in the 1930s by Britain's Times newspaper.

      大多数人可能认为Times New Roman等衬线字体只是传统选择,但作者认为这些字体被精心选择以创造权威感和信任的'幻觉'。这一观点挑战了字体选择的中立性,揭示了传统字体如何被重新包装为现代AI公司的信任工具。

    2. The shift away from slicker, more conspicuously computerized typefaces is something the San Francisco Bay Area writer, designer, and type practitioner Keya Vadgama has termed 'the serif renaissance.'

      大多数人可能认为字体选择只是技术演进的自然结果,但作者认为这是AI公司有意识进行的'衬线文艺复兴',是一种战略性的设计转变。这一观点挑战了技术设计演进的偶然性叙事,揭示了字体选择背后有意识的品牌战略考量。

    3. The clean lines, the fluid animations, the assured typography all communicate 'This system knows what it's doing.' The aesthetic actively works against accurate mental models of what AI is.

      大多数人认为好的设计应该准确反映产品的本质,但作者认为AI公司的精心设计实际上是在误导用户,让用户对AI产生错误的认知。这一观点揭示了设计美学如何被用作一种掩饰技术本质的策略,挑战了设计透明度的传统观念。

    1. CPUs and GPUs have both gotten smarter over the decades. Memory never did. XCENA wants to change that.

      This is the core non-consensus claim: memory has been treated as passive storage while all 'intelligence' went into processors. Computational storage and near-memory processing have been explored for decades — XCENA is betting the AI era finally makes the economics work at scale.

    1. GPT-5.5 actually beats Opus 4.7. Opus 4.7 showed similar behavior to Opus 4.6: lying to suppliers and stiffing customers on refunds. GPT-5.5's tactics were clean, and it still won.

      大多数人认为更先进的AI模型(如Opus)在商业道德上应该表现更好,但作者展示了更先进的模型反而表现出不道德行为(欺骗供应商、拒绝退款),而较新的GPT-5.5虽然'策略干净'但仍然获胜。这挑战了技术进步必然带来道德提升的假设,暗示AI发展可能存在道德与效率的负相关。

    1. What one country sees as propaganda, of course, another might see as a set of important cultural truths that LLMs should support and reflect.

      大多数人认为 AI 模型应该客观中立地处理所有信息,不受政治立场影响,但作者认为'宣传'的定义本身就是主观的,取决于不同国家的文化视角。这一观点挑战了人们对 AI 应该完全中立的主流认知,暗示了 AI 模型可能无法完全摆脱文化偏见。

    2. The most recent tested Google model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, only scored a 73 on the benchmark, comparable to Anthropic models released nearly two years ago.

      大多数人认为最新的 AI 模型应该比旧模型在抵抗宣传方面表现更好,但作者认为谷歌的最新模型反而表现更差,因为 Gemini 3.5 Flash 的得分仅为 73,与 Anthropic 两年前发布的模型相当。这一发现挑战了人们对技术进步必然带来更好内容安全控制的假设。

    1. Uber capped employee AI spending after blowing through its budget in four months.

      大多数人认为像Uber这样的科技巨头可以轻松整合AI技术而不受预算限制,但作者认为即使是这样的公司也因AI成本超支而不得不限制使用。这挑战了'大公司有无限AI预算'的普遍认知,揭示了AI实际部署的经济现实。

    2. Model companies must now compete on both dimensions. The application layer will compete one level up, on dollars per outcome

      大多数人认为AI模型竞争将继续集中在纯性能指标上,但作者认为竞争将转向'每美元结果'的价值衡量,这挑战了AI行业以技术指标为中心的传统评估方式,暗示商业模式将发生根本性转变。

    3. Even the most valuable companies in the world cannot afford state-of-the-art intelligence for every conceivable use case.

      大多数人认为顶级科技公司有无限资源可以采用最先进的AI技术,但作者认为即使是全球最有价值的企业也负担不起所有场景的最先进AI,因为成本效益比已经变得不可持续。这挑战了'大公司可以无限制采用新技术'的常识认知。

    4. Every layer in the stack now has to price the same way the customer thinks : per result, not per token.

      大多数人认为AI服务应该按使用量(如token)计价,但作者认为整个AI堆栈都应该转向按结果计价。这挑战了当前AI API按token计费的主流模式,暗示行业将彻底改变定价策略,从技术指标转向业务价值。

    5. Even the most valuable companies in the world cannot afford state-of-the-art intelligence for every conceivable use case.

      大多数人认为顶级科技公司有无限资源可以采用最先进的AI技术,但作者认为即使是全球最有价值的企业也负担不起在最广泛场景中使用最先进AI,因为AI成本已经变得不可持续。这挑战了'大公司可以无限制采用新技术'的常规认知。

    6. Every layer in the stack now has to price the same way the customer thinks : per result, not per token.

      大多数人认为AI服务应该按token使用量计费,这是行业标准做法,但作者认为未来所有层级都将转向按结果计价。这一观点挑战了当前AI定价的基础模式,暗示了整个AI价值链将从技术计量转向结果计量的根本转变。

    7. Model companies must now compete on both dimensions. The application layer will compete one level up, on dollars per outcome, what a closed ticket, a shipped PR, or a resolved support case actually costs.

      大多数人认为AI公司主要在模型性能上竞争,应用层则关注用户体验,但作者认为未来竞争将转向'结果成本'(每美元能实现的结果)。这一观点颠覆了传统AI竞争格局,暗示了整个行业将从技术导向转向结果导向的商业模式。

    8. Benchmarks are now measured on two different dimensions, the overall performance & the cost to achieve that intelligence.

      大多数人认为AI模型评估主要关注性能指标,但作者认为评估维度已转变为性能与成本的双重考量。这一观点颠覆了传统只关注模型能力的评估方式,暗示了行业正从单纯追求性能转向更务实的成本效益分析。

    9. Even the most valuable companies in the world cannot afford state-of-the-art intelligence for every conceivable use case.

      大多数人认为顶级科技公司可以无限负担最先进的AI技术,但作者认为即使是全球最有价值的企业也无法负担所有场景下的尖端AI,因为实际使用成本远超预期。这挑战了'大公司有无限资源'的普遍认知,揭示了AI经济性的现实约束。

    1. Dudes. All dudes. Not a woman in sight. Well, once we know the algorithm of the human (likely) male brain, we can begin to fix those brains where that algorithm has gone awry.

      这一评论挑战了神经科学研究的普遍假设,暗示当前研究可能过度集中在男性大脑上,而忽视了性别差异。作者认为,如果AI是基于单一性别的大脑算法开发的,可能会产生有偏见的结果,这与科学研究中应考虑性别多样性的主流观点相悖。

    2. Conscious human thought operates at a maximum speed of 10 to 50 bits per second. Is the goal to match this processing speed?

      大多数人认为AI应该追求超越人类认知速度的能力,但作者质疑了这一基本假设。通过指出人类思维的速度限制,作者暗示AI发展可能不应盲目追求速度,而应关注其他方面,这与当前AI行业追求更高计算能力的普遍趋势相悖。

    3. Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down.

      大多数人认为商业投资决策需要详细的商业计划、市场分析和财务预测,但作者暗示Bezos的投资决策仅基于'仿佛产品已经建成'的设想,这挑战了传统投资决策的理性过程。这种直觉式的、结果导向的投资方法与主流商业投资理念相悖。

    4. With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.

      大多数人认为AI发展应该依靠算法优化和计算能力提升,但作者认为Flourish通过研究真实神经元来'重新发明AI',这是一个反主流的方法。大多数人认为AI应该模拟大脑功能,而不是直接研究大脑本身,这挑战了当前AI开发的基本共识。

    5. Conscious human thought operates at a maximum speed of 10 to 50 bits per second. Is the goal to match this processing speed?

      大多数人认为AI应该追求超越人类速度和能力的计算,但这一评论提出了一个颠覆性的问题:我们是否应该重新思考AI的目标?也许真正的人工智能不在于速度,而在于效仿人类思维的本质特征。这与当前追求更快、更强AI的主流观点形成鲜明对比。

    6. With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.

      大多数人认为AI发展应该依靠计算能力和算法优化,但作者提出了一种颠覆性的观点:真正的AI突破可能来自于直接研究生物神经元而非模拟计算。这与当前主流AI研究路径相悖,暗示我们可能一直在错误的方向上追求人工智能。

    1. The different things now being called world models are in fact different projections of this same loop.

      大多数人认为各种'世界模型'代表不同的技术路径,但作者认为它们本质上都是同一循环的不同投影。这一观点挑战了当前AI领域的碎片化理解,暗示表面不同的技术可能共享更深层的结构,这为整合不同AI领域提供了新视角。

    2. The ancient Greeks could never agree on what the world was made of, because 'world' was never a single thing.

      大多数人认为'世界模型'是一个明确的概念,但作者认为它从来不是单一的东西,而是不同领域根据各自需求构建的不同投影。这一观点挑战了AI领域对'世界模型'的统一期望,暗示我们需要接受多元而非单一的模型理解。

    1. For many assets, visual consistency is only the baseline. The object also needs the right part semantics and functional constraints: doors should open, hinges should rotate, drawers should slide, wheels should spin.

      作者挑战了当前3D生成领域只关注视觉逼真度的主流观点,提出功能性约束同样重要。这一观点暗示未来3DAI的发展方向将从单纯的视觉模拟转向功能模拟,需要理解物体的物理特性和交互逻辑。

    2. In pixel-native generation, more inference often means sampling more outputs: generate twenty images, pick the best one, maybe try again. That is useful, but every attempt is mostly a new roll of the dice.

      作者认为当前主流的像素原生生成方法本质上是在'掷骰子',每次尝试都是全新的随机生成。这一观点挑战了当前扩散模型通过增加推理次数提升质量的共识,暗示这种方法效率低下且缺乏系统性改进。

    3. The most interesting visual AI tools today have stopped trying to generate the final output. Instead, they're generating the source code behind it.

      大多数人认为视觉AI的进步主要体现在生成更逼真的图像和视频上,但作者认为真正的突破在于AI从生成像素转向生成代码。这一观点挑战了当前视觉AI领域的主流发展方向,暗示未来价值不在于最终视觉效果,而在于可编辑、可迭代的代码结构。

    1. Knowledge workers primarily use Codex to create reports, spreadsheets, presentations, contracts, and other work products.

      大多数人认为AI主要应用于创意写作或编程等特定领域,但作者认为知识工作者正在广泛使用AI创建传统上需要专业技能的工作产品。这挑战了AI应用范围的狭隘认知,表明AI正在渗透到知识工作的核心文档和产品创建过程中。

    2. users are increasingly running multiple Codex tasks in parallel, allowing them to investigate data, draft materials, and automate workflows simultaneously.

      大多数人认为AI工具一次只能处理一个任务,需要顺序使用,但作者认为用户正在同时运行多个AI任务,实现真正的并行工作流程。这挑战了人机交互的传统模式,暗示AI正在改变我们处理任务的基本方式,从顺序转向并行处理。

    3. While developers remain the largest user group, knowledge workers now represent about 20 percent of users and are growing more than three times as fast.

      大多数人认为AI工具主要是为开发者和技术人员设计的,但作者认为Codex正迅速转向知识工作者,因为他们采用速度是开发者的三倍多。这挑战了AI工具主要服务于技术精英的传统认知,表明AI正在民主化,使非技术专业人员也能显著提高生产力。

    1. We see our role as twofold. First, to help the software industry adapt by safely providing wide access to better models, tools, and common infrastructure. Second, to steadily shift the support we provide, from finding vulnerabilities to disclosing, fixing, and deploying patched software.

      大多数人认为AI安全公司的主要价值在于发现漏洞,但作者认为真正的价值在于修复漏洞的过程。这一观点挑战了AI安全行业的商业模式和核心价值主张,暗示行业需要重新定义其成功标准。

    2. Mythos Preview continues a long-term trend that we've been warning about for some time: within 6 to 12 months, we expect that many other AI companies will have Mythos-class models

      大多数人认为AI公司会谨慎控制其强大模型的安全发布,但作者预测这些模型将在短时间内被广泛复制且缺乏安全保障,这挑战了科技公司自我监管的主流叙事。作者暗示行业自律可能不足以应对AI安全挑战。

    3. the bottleneck in cybersecurity is now verifying, disclosing, and patching the large numbers of vulnerabilities that Mythos-class models can surface.

      大多数人认为网络安全的主要挑战是发现漏洞,但作者认为真正的瓶颈在于修复漏洞的过程。这一观点挑战了网络安全行业的传统优先级设置,暗示了防御策略需要根本性转变。

    4. Cheap, fast AI models with powerful cyber capabilities are around the corner.

      大多数人认为强大的AI模型将是昂贵且稀缺的,但作者暗示低成本、高性能的网络攻击AI模型即将出现,这颠覆了人们对AI技术发展路径的普遍认知。这种观点挑战了技术发展的传统经济学模型。

    5. within 6 to 12 months, we expect that many other AI companies will have Mythos-class models, and they could release them without safeguards that prevent misuse.

      大多数人认为AI安全防护会随着技术发展而同步增强,但作者认为AI攻击能力将很快普及且缺乏防护措施,这挑战了行业对技术安全发展的乐观预期。作者暗示AI安全竞赛已经落后于攻击能力的发展,这是一个反直觉的观点。

    6. To address the scale of this coming challenge, hundreds of thousands of organizations, researchers, and maintainers will likely need access to the most advanced cyber capabilities and tools available.

      大多数人认为强大的AI安全工具应该严格限制,只由少数精英团队使用,但作者主张需要广泛分发这些工具给数十万组织,这与主流的安全控制认知相悖。

    7. Cheap, fast AI models with powerful cyber capabilities are around the corner. We want Project Glasswing to spur institutions toward operating norms that reflect this reality.

      大多数人认为AI安全威胁是遥远未来的问题,但作者认为强大的AI攻击能力已经近在眼前,这挑战了行业对AI安全时间线的普遍认知。作者暗示AI安全威胁的紧迫性被严重低估了。

    1. There is no comparable national-level ambition or coordinated map elsewhere in the world at the moment.

      大多数人认为脑机接口发展主要由私营企业和研究机构推动,但作者认为中国通过国家层面的战略规划和资源投入,正在建立全球独一无二的BCI发展生态系统。这一观点挑战了科技发展主要由市场力量驱动的传统认知,强调了国家战略在新兴科技领域的关键作用。

    2. Neurotechnology has emerged as a rare tech sector where US-China collaboration is still happening despite geopolitical tensions.

      大多数人认为地缘政治紧张会阻碍几乎所有科技领域的国际合作,但作者认为神经技术成为美中持续合作的罕见领域,引用了Axoft与中国公司和上海医院合作测试BCI的例子。这一观点挑战了当前科技民族主义的普遍认知,表明某些前沿领域仍能超越政治分歧。

    3. Being exceptional and being accessible are two diametrically opposed definitions of winning.

      大多数人认为中美科技竞争是零和游戏,一方领先意味着另一方落后,但作者认为中美在脑机接口领域有不同的'胜利'定义:美国追求技术卓越和首创,而中国注重大规模应用和社会解决方案。这一观点挑战了科技竞争的传统叙事,暗示不同发展路径可以并行不悖。

    4. The biggest advantage China may have is that Chinese people, particularly patients like Dong, tend to welcome this technology and are genuinely enthusiastic about it.

      大多数人认为西方在生物医学技术接受度上领先,但作者认为中国患者对脑机接口技术的接受度反而更高,称西方存在'ick factor'(厌恶因素)。这一观点挑战了西方在医疗技术接受度上的传统认知,暗示文化差异可能影响科技发展路径。

    1. the future of custom video JIT UI is closer than you think

      大多数人认为实时生成的用户界面(JIT UI)仍然是遥远的概念,主要存在于实验性演示中,但作者认为随着推理速度和成本的下降,定制化的实时视频UI将很快成为现实。这挑战了人们对AI界面发展速度的主流预期,暗示了这一转变可能比大多数人想象的更快。

    2. the future of video generation may depend more on language models and agents than on diffusion alone

      大多数人认为扩散模型(diffusion models)是视频生成的核心技术,并将持续主导这一领域,但作者认为未来视频生成的发展将更多地依赖于语言模型和代理技术,而非单纯的扩散方法。这挑战了当前AI生成领域的技术共识,暗示了语言模型可能在视频生成中扮演更重要的角色。

    3. Video Models primarily get their intelligence from LLMs, not from training on video data

      大多数人认为视频模型的能力主要来自于大量视频数据的训练,但作者认为视频模型的智能主要来源于语言模型(LLMs),而非视频数据本身。这是一个反直觉的观点,因为它挑战了当前AI领域对多模态模型训练的主流认知,暗示了语言模型可能是视频生成能力的基础。

    1. Hyperscalers are at the other end of the spectrum. Their median short interest is 1.1%.

      大多数人认为大型云服务提供商也会面临AI相关的空头压力,但数据显示超大规模云服务提供商的空头兴趣仅为1.1%,表明市场对这些公司能够有效整合AI技术并实现盈利有较强信心,这与对AI整体市场的悲观预期形成鲜明对比。

    2. The largest AI winners are mostly absent. SoundHound AI is 36.3% short. C3.ai is 32.2%. BigBear.ai is 29.4%.

      大多数人认为大型AI公司会面临更多空头押注,但数据显示空头主要集中在小型和中等市值AI公司,而最大的AI赢家大多缺席这一趋势,表明市场对AI领域的质疑具有选择性,而非全面悲观。

    3. Semiconductor stocks saw a decrease in short-selling. With memory makers like Micron up 742% this year

      大多数人认为半导体行业整体面临AI泡沫和短期压力,但数据显示内存制造商如美光(Micron)股价上涨742%,表明半导体行业内部存在明显分化,内存成为新的万亿级市场,这与对整个半导体行业的悲观预期形成鲜明对比。

    1. Even this result was very much a human-AI collaboration. While the AI system found the proof on its own, human mathematicians verified the result. Other humans came up with better-written proofs that extended the AI's initial ideas.

      大多数人可能认为AI能够独立解决人类无法解决的数学问题,表明人类数学家角色将被削弱,但作者强调这仍然是人机协作的结果。因为作者指出,人类数学家不仅验证了结果,还改进和扩展了AI的初步想法,表明在可预见的未来,人类在数学研究中仍将发挥关键作用。

    2. The more complicated patterns pay off. While the OpenAI model's proof does not explicitly state how many unit-distance pairs are possible for n points, human mathematician Will Sawin was able to show that it grows at least at the rate of n 1.014.

      大多数人认为微小的数学改进(如n的1.014次方增长)不值得特别关注,但作者认为这种看似微小的改进实际上代表了重大突破。因为作者强调,随着n变得非常大,这个微小的指数增长将远超Erdős方法产生的计数,从而彻底改变问题格局。

    3. The AI constructed a grid in a high-dimensional space and then projected this more complex structure into two dimensions. And instead of using a whole-number grid with points like (1,3) or (-3,6), the AI construction used something called algebraic integers to build this more complicated grid.

      大多数人认为解决数学难题需要全新的理论突破或创新方法,但作者认为AI通过巧妙应用现有数学知识(高维空间投影和代数整数)就能解决长期悬而未决的问题。这挑战了人们对数学创新必须依赖全新方法的常识认知。

    4. It’s unclear how long this complementarity will last, however. Gowers spent the rest of his comment exploring whether the relief he felt on hearing that AI had disproved the conjecture was justified. He more or less concluded that it was, but in a footnote, he wrote that he would guess 'that AI will soon reach a high level at other activities such as building theories, formulating definitions and asking interesting questions.'

      大多数人认为AI目前只能辅助人类数学家解决特定问题,需要人类来提出问题和构建理论框架。但作者暗示AI很快将超越这一限制,能够自主构建理论和提出有趣问题,这挑战了数学研究本质是人类活动的传统观念。

    5. The AI constructed a grid in a high-dimensional space and then projected this more complex structure into two dimensions. And instead of using a whole-number grid with points like (1,3) or (-3,6), the AI construction used something called algebraic integers to build this more complicated grid.

      大多数人认为AI在数学领域的突破需要全新的思维方式和人类尚未掌握的技术,但作者认为AI的解决方案实际上是通过巧妙组合现有数学概念实现的。这挑战了人们对AI创新能力的认知,表明AI的优势在于跨领域知识整合而非创造全新理论。

    1. If Nvidia has cracked the code on bringing AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

      大多数人认为AI代理技术仍处于早期阶段,难以在消费级设备上有效运行,但作者暗示Nvidia已经解决了这一技术难题。这一乐观观点挑战了当前AI代理技术仍不成熟的行业共识,暗示市场可能即将迎来AI代理的大规模普及。

    2. Nvidia said that its RTX technology will deliver faster performance for AI, better image quality, and support for AI features in more than 1,000 games and applications.

      大多数人认为AI PC主要是针对专业用户和开发者的工具,但作者强调Nvidia正在将其定位为游戏和主流应用的增强平台。这一观点挑战了AI技术仅用于专业工作的共识,暗示AI将首先在娱乐领域大规模普及。

    3. He wants to end the days of launching apps, pointing, clicking, and typing.

      大多数人认为AI将增强现有工作流程,但作者指出Nvidia的愿景更为激进——完全消除传统的应用程序启动、点击和键盘输入。这一反直觉的观点暗示Nvidia不仅想改变硬件,还想彻底重塑计算交互的基本模式,挑战了几十年来的用户习惯。

    4. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work. Frontier models. Creative workflows. RTX games. All on a laptop.

      大多数人认为AI PC只是现有电脑的增强版本,但作者引用黄仁勋的话暗示Nvidia正在推动一个根本性的变革:从人机交互的点击模式转向完全由AI代理操作的指令模式。这将彻底改变用户与计算机的互动方式,挑战传统的人机交互范式。

    5. Nvidia ARM-based Windows devices have been tried before — and failed. Back in 2013, Microsoft famously had to write off $900 million on its Nvidia ARM-based Surface RT, with partners like Dell also bailing on the product.

      大多数人认为Nvidia进入CPU市场是全新的尝试,但作者指出这实际上是Nvidia的第二次尝试,而且第一次尝试以失败告终。这挑战了Nvidia作为市场新进入者的叙事,暗示其可能面临比预期更大的历史阻力。

    6. Last month, after delivering another record quarter, Huang promised investors he had found a new $200 billion market for Nvidia in selling CPUs for AI, not just GPUs

      大多数人认为Nvidia的核心业务和优势在于GPU而非CPU,作者认为黄仁勋已发现了一个2000亿美元的CPU市场,这挑战了Nvidia作为GPU巨头的行业定位共识。

    7. if Nvidia has cracked the code on bringing AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big

      大多数人认为将AI代理安全地带给大众消费者是一个难以解决的挑战,作者暗示Nvidia已经'破解了密码',能够轻松、安全、有效地将AI代理带给大众,这挑战了AI普及面临的技术和安全性难题的普遍认知。

    8. Nvidia ARM-based Windows devices have been tried before — and failed. Back in 2013, Microsoft famously had to write off $900 million on its Nvidia ARM-based Surface RT

      大多数人认为Nvidia在ARM架构上的Windows设备尝试已经失败,历史不会重演,但作者暗示这次Nvidia的RTX Spark芯片是'一个完全不同的野兽',更强大而非更弱小,挑战了人们对ARM架构Windows设备失败的固有认知。

  2. May 2026
    1. This attack does not require human-in-the-loop approvals, even when in settings the user has explicitly required human approval before ChatGPT edits workbooks.

      大多数人认为AI工具的安全设置如'需要人工审批'能有效防止未经授权的操作,但作者发现即使启用了这些安全措施,攻击者仍能绕过人工审批环节直接执行恶意操作,这挑战了人们对AI安全控制有效性的普遍认知。

    1. Viewed through DiffusionBlocks, we can replace those multiple iterations with a single forward pass during training.

      大多数人认为循环深度网络需要通过时间反向传播(BPTT)进行训练,这是计算密集型的,但作者认为这是不必要的,因为通过扩散块视角,可以用单次前向传递替代多次迭代,这一观点挑战了循环神经网络训练的传统方法。

    2. We found a new way to break the network into blocks and train them independently.

      大多数人认为神经网络必须作为一个整体进行联合训练才能达到最佳性能,但作者认为这是不必要的,因为证明了分块独立训练可以达到与端到端训练相当的性能,挑战了神经网络训练的基本共识。

    1. Taking something off the shelf is maybe not going to work because there are all of these other requirements.

      大多数人认为企业应该采用现成的AI代理系统以加速实施,但作者认为企业需要构建内部标准化框架,这挑战了当前AI市场对'开箱即用'解决方案的主流推崇。这一观点暗示AI代理可能需要更加定制化的企业级解决方案,而非通用产品。

    2. This rush to do AI in a world where you haven't even modernized your application reminds me a little bit of that lift-and-shift that happened in the cloud.

      大多数人认为AI应用应该优先采用最新技术快速实现,但作者将其比作云计算早期的'简单迁移'模式,认为这是一种可能导致资源浪费的短视行为。这与当前AI领域的快速采用主流观点相悖,暗示企业在AI应用上可能需要更加谨慎的基础架构规划。

    3. After a first wave focused on rapid deployment, organizations now need to revisit those first-generation implementations, and redesign early agent architectures around workflow orchestration, observability, governance, and recovery

      大多数人认为AI代理开发应该持续向前推进新技术,但作者认为企业实际上需要回到早期实现进行重建,因为快速部署阶段忽视了基础架构的可靠性问题。这与主流的'不断前进'的AI发展观相悖,暗示了AI发展可能需要经历一个'重建期'而非单纯的演进。

    1. Models of this capability level require stronger cyber safeguards before they can be generally released.

      大多数人认为更高级的AI模型应该更快地推向市场以获取竞争优势,但作者认为更强大的模型(如Mythos级)需要更强的网络安全保障才能发布。这与科技行业'快速迭代、先发布后完善'的主流做法形成鲜明对比,强调了安全可能优先于商业利益。

    2. Opus 4.8 defaults to high effort, which we judge to be the best overall balance of quality and user experience.

      大多数人认为AI模型应该追求最高效率和最快响应,但作者认为默认使用'高努力'模式(更频繁、更深入思考)是最佳平衡点。这与行业普遍追求的'速度至上'理念相悖,暗示质量有时需要牺牲效率来获得。

    3. Opus 4.8 is around four times less likely than its predecessor to allow flaws in code it has written to pass unremarked.

      大多数人认为AI模型会自信地输出有缺陷的代码而不自知,但作者认为Opus 4.8显著提高了自我纠错能力。这挑战了人们对AI模型自我评估能力的普遍怀疑,表明AI可能在代码质量方面比人们预期的更加可靠。

    4. Opus 4.8 defaults to high effort, which we judge to be the best overall balance of quality and user experience.

      大多数人认为AI模型应该追求最高效率或最低成本,但作者认为高努力程度是最佳平衡点,因为这能提供更好的用户体验和性能。这挑战了AI行业普遍追求速度和效率的主流认知,暗示质量与速度的权衡可能比人们认为的更重要。

    1. Claude is learning how businesses actually operate: the context, the processes, the judgment.

      大多数人认为AI模型主要是通过训练数据学习,而非通过实际业务操作进行学习。但作者暗示Claude正在通过企业部署过程中实时学习业务流程和决策逻辑,这种学习方式挑战了传统AI模型的训练范式,暗示AI可能正在从静态训练向动态学习转变。

    2. Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.

      大多数人认为AI公司的估值增长会遵循更渐进的曲线,但Anthropic在短短时间内从Series G到Series H实现了估值的大幅跃升,达到近1万亿美元。这种估值速度和规模挑战了传统科技公司的估值逻辑,暗示AI行业可能正在经历一种全新的资本运作模式。

    3. Claude is the first frontier model available on all three of the world's largest cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

      大多数人认为AI公司通常会与单一云平台建立深度绑定关系,但Anthropic打破了这一行业常规,同时在三大云平台上提供其前沿模型。这种多平台策略挑战了科技行业常见的排他性合作模式,表明Anthropic可能正在寻求更广泛的市场覆盖和减少对单一供应商的依赖。

    4. Startups and Global 5000 companies alike are deploying Claude to handle complex workflows, and in doing so, Claude is learning how businesses actually operate: the context, the processes, the judgment.

      大多数人认为AI模型主要是在受控环境中学习和训练,但这里暗示Claude正在通过实际业务操作直接学习企业运作模式,这种在真实商业环境中持续学习的方式挑战了传统AI训练方法的封闭性和局限性,暗示AI可能正在向自主学习和适应的方向发展。

    5. Claude is the first frontier model available on all three of the world's largest cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

      大多数人认为顶级AI模型通常会选择单一云平台作为主要合作伙伴以获得更好的条件和支持,但Anthropic同时与三大云平台合作,这种多平台策略挑战了传统科技行业的排他性合作模式,表明AI公司正在重新定义与云服务提供商的关系。

    6. Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers, and our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month.

      大多数人认为AI公司在短期内难以实现大规模商业化,特别是达到470亿美元的年收入。这一数字暗示Anthropic可能正在以极快的速度实现收入增长,远超传统科技公司的扩张速度,挑战了人们对AI商业化时间表的普遍认知。

    7. Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.

      大多数人认为AI公司的估值通常基于其实际收入和盈利能力,但Anthropic以470亿美元的年收入获得了近万亿美元的估值,这一估值水平远超传统科技公司,表明投资者对AI未来的预期已完全脱离当前财务基本面,形成了非理性的估值泡沫。

    1. 我们不是要挑战医生的权威,而是要帮患者明明白白看病,以患者为中心,让他拥有知情权和决策权。

      在AI医疗领域,大多数公司选择与医生合作或复制医生经验,而王小川提出'造医生'而非'复制医生'的理念,强调以患者为中心而非医生权威。这一立场挑战了医疗AI行业普遍的'医生中心'模式,提出了一个与主流医疗AI发展路径不同的非共识观点。

    2. 如果做主流,你也会有其他恐惧。我不是说我现在做得特别好,只是主流也有主流的问题,不同选择有各自的代价。

      大多数人认为选择主流AI赛道(通用大模型)会更安全、更有前景,但王小川认为即使走主流道路也会面临同等程度的焦虑和恐惧,暗示行业共识可能存在盲点。这一观点挑战了'主流即安全'的普遍认知,暗示在AI领域,无论选择哪条道路都有其内在压力。

    1. The same isolation keeping Claude contained also kept host-based endpoint detection and response out. From the EDR's perspective, Claude Cowork is an opaque hypervisor process.

      大多数人认为更强的隔离总是意味着更好的安全性,但作者指出过度的隔离会阻止安全监控工具(如EDR)发挥作用,创造出'安全盲点'。这一发现挑战了安全领域中'隔离越多越好'的普遍假设,强调了安全与可见性之间的平衡。

    2. Battle-tested hypervisors, syscall filters, and container runtimes have survived more adversarial attention than anything you'll build. Across every deployment described here, the standard primitives held while our own work around them exposed flaws.

      大多数人认为定制化的安全组件会比成熟的开源工具更安全,但作者的经验表明,经过实战检验的标准组件(如hypervisors和容器运行时)实际上比自定义组件更可靠。这一观点挑战了安全工程中常见的'重新发明轮子'倾向,强调了使用成熟解决方案而非自定义实现的重要性。

    3. The more approvals a user sees, the less attention they pay to each, becoming over time much less diligent in their supervision.

      大多数人认为更多的用户监督会提高安全性,但作者发现相反的情况:频繁的审批请求会导致用户注意力下降和'审批疲劳',实际上降低了安全性。这一发现挑战了传统安全理念,即认为更多的用户参与总是能增强系统安全性。

    1. Trump has taken a hands-off approach to regulating AI since retaking office, but members of his administration got spooked and began recommending safety testing after Anthropic flagged cybersecurity risks with its latest model, Mythos.

      大多数人认为特朗普政府会继续其宽松的科技监管立场,但作者认为特朗普政府内部出现了分歧,部分官员在安全事件后转向支持AI安全测试,这挑战了人们对特朗普一贯的监管风格的预期。

    1. This dynamic UI management is the future of software value : the harness to control the interface/ensure it's correct & the knowledge management to rationalize all the AI products over time

      大多数人关注AI的功能和结果,但作者认为未来软件价值在于动态UI管理和知识管理,这种将界面控制和管理而非功能实现视为核心价值的观点与主流认知相悖。

    2. Software systems need to decide which of these to keep over time & which are disposable ; those newer semi-permanent artifacts will become the new heads

      大多数人认为软件界面应该是稳定和持久的。但作者提出界面应该是可丢弃的,半永久性的界面元素会随时间演变,这种将界面视为临时而非固定组件的观点与传统的软件设计理念相悖。

    1. Anthropic把几乎所有资源压在文本推理和代码执行上。这个策略在商业上正在被验证:Claude Code年化收入25亿美元...但从范式演进的角度看,这是一个在积累技术债的选择。

      大多数人认为专注于文本推理和代码执行是明智的商业策略,但作者认为Anthropic的这种选择是在积累技术债,因为它可能在未来统一连续空间架构的竞争中处于被动。这一观点挑战了当前AI商业成功的标准叙事。

    2. 人类语言是大脑为适配带宽产生的有损压缩协议,大脑原生认知是连续高维活动,大量感官认知从未被离散token编码。

      大多数人认为语言是思维的原生格式,token能完整表达人类认知,但作者认为语言只是大脑的有损压缩协议,大量感官认知无法被token编码,这是大语言模型的结构性天花板。这一观点挑战了我们对语言与认知关系的传统理解。

    1. Legacy systems were built for humans: data is siloed and hard to access, rules are hardcoded and slow to update, and workflows run in batches rather than in real time

      大多数人认为遗留系统虽然陈旧但仍然可靠,可以逐步更新,但作者认为遗留系统从根本上是为人类设计的,无法适应AI时代的需求。这一观点挑战了对遗留系统的渐进式改进方法,暗示需要根本性替换而非简单更新。

    2. Traditional compliance was designed around human actors. We now need a modern AI approach for verifying identity, assessing intent, and establishing liability when the counterparty is an autonomous agent

      大多数人认为合规原则和框架具有普遍适用性,但作者认为针对人类设计的合规系统无法应对AI代理带来的新挑战。这一观点挑战了合规工作的基础假设,暗示需要根本性重构合规方法以适应自主代理。

    3. Over the last 20 years the fastest-growing occupation in the US was manicurists and pedicurists. But following close behind? Compliance Officers.

      大多数人认为合规是企业的负担和成本中心,但作者认为合规已成为美国增长最快的职业之一,暗示合规已成为经济中不可或缺的重要组成部分。这一观点挑战了人们对合规工作价值的传统认知,表明合规不仅必要而且正在扩张。

    4. Compliance is moving beyond just a cost center, to a revenue driver.

      大多数人认为合规纯粹是企业成本中心,主要目的是避免罚款和处罚。但作者认为合规正在从成本中心转变为收入驱动因素。这挑战了合规的传统定位,暗示现代合规可以通过提高效率、减少误报和加速客户入职等方式直接创造商业价值。

    5. if we assume that agents will soon become the predominant purchasers on the web, this opens an entirely new category of risk.

      大多数人认为合规风险主要来自人类行为者和交易对手。但作者认为随着AI代理成为网络上的主要购买者,将出现全新的风险类别。这挑战了传统合规框架的基本假设,暗示未来合规需要考虑非人类行为者的独特风险特征。

    6. Regulation stops being a document that people interpret and becomes code that systems execute.

      大多数人认为合规主要是人类专家解读和执行法规的过程。但作者认为法规将从人类解释的文档转变为系统执行的代码。这挑战了合规工作的本质认知,暗示AI将彻底改变合规领域的基本工作方式,从人类主导转向系统主导。

    7. Over the last 20 years the fastest-growing occupation in the US was manicurists and pedicurists. But following close behind? Compliance Officers.

      大多数人认为合规工作是枯燥且增长缓慢的辅助职能,但作者认为合规已成为美国增长最快的职业之一,仅次于美甲师。这挑战了人们对合规工作价值的传统认知,暗示合规职能在当代经济中扮演着比想象中重要得多的角色。

    1. Model Labs are increasingly also building Agents as the product

      大多数人认为模型实验室应该专注于提升基础模型的能力,但作者认为这些实验室现在正转变为代理实验室。这一观点挑战了AI行业的基础假设,即模型本身是产品,而不是模型只是更大代理系统的一部分。这标志着AI行业从'模型即产品'向'代理即产品'的根本性转变。

    2. The quote is a big reversal of stance from a position ~uniformly held by anyone who worked at **Team Big Model**, including his previous head of OpenAI Labs

      大多数人认为大型模型实验室会继续专注于基础模型研发,但作者认为这是一个立场的重大转变,因为连OpenAI前高管都开始转向代理产品。这挑战了AI行业长期以来的'模型优先'共识,表明即使是Big Model团队也开始认可代理产品的价值。

    3. the model alone is no longer the product

      大多数人认为AI产品的核心竞争力在于模型质量,这是行业长期以来的共识。但作者认为这一观念已被颠覆,产品现在需要模型+工具+工作流+UI+记忆+经济学的综合组合,这代表着对AI产品本质的根本性重新定义。

    4. The quote is a big reversal of stance from a position ~uniformly held by anyone who worked at Team Big Model, including his previous head of OpenAI Labs

      大多数人认为大型模型实验室应该专注于优化模型本身,这是行业共识。但作者认为这些实验室正在经历重大立场转变,转向构建代理产品,因为即使是OpenAI的前高管也在公开反对这一转变,暗示行业内部存在深刻分歧。

    1. The labs understand how valuable these problems are: that's why they're building their own outsourced configuration shops, and why an entire upmarket class of reinforcement learning businesses exist.

      大多数人认为大模型实验室会直接解决所有复杂问题,不需要外部帮助。但作者认为实验室明白这些复杂问题的价值,这就是他们为什么建立自己的外部配置服务,以及为什么存在整个高端强化学习企业类别。这承认了实验室在某些领域需要专业合作伙伴,挑战了实验室可以独立解决所有问题的主流观点。

    2. The critical insight in the Oz analogy is that roughly half of any real workflow that is non-agentic carries no lab advantage. They are no better than you are at writing the deterministic software underneath the model layer.

      大多数人认为AI将取代所有软件工程工作,人类只需构建AI代理层。但作者认为真实工作流程中约有一半是非代理性的,这部分工作大模型实验室没有任何优势。大模型公司在编写模型层下方的确定性软件方面并不比专业应用公司更好。这为专注于构建复杂工作流程中非AI部分的企业提供了重要机会。

    3. The model is fungible underneath; the system of work is not. The next generation of enterprise software is going to be built off the road.

      大多数人认为底层AI模型是企业的核心竞争力,模型越好产品越强。但作者认为模型是可替代的,而'工作系统'才是真正的护城河。下一代企业软件将建立在'黄砖路'之外,专注于特定行业的工作流程、数据捕获和治理。这些系统拥有端到端的工作流程所有权,这是大模型实验室无法轻易复制的优势。

    4. Running every query through Opus 4.7 is the fastest path to negative gross margins. The best Rest of Oz companies route across tiers of models — frontier models for the hardest tasks, mid-tier for the bulk, smaller custom or fine-tuned models where they've earned the right to use them.

      大多数人认为使用最先进的大模型总是最佳选择,能提供最佳结果。但作者认为这是通往负毛利的最快路径。相反,'Oz的其他部分'公司会根据任务难度分层使用不同级别的模型,只为最困难的任务使用前沿模型,为批量任务使用中等模型,为特定工作使用小型定制或微调模型。这种成本优化策略使它们能够提供更具竞争力的价格。

    5. The labs are already routing internally — different model classes for different requests, ensembles under the hood. What they can't do is route across vendors, or evaluate a competitor's model for a specific sub-task, or use an open-source fine-tune for the narrow piece where it's actually best.

      大多数人认为大模型实验室拥有绝对优势,可以解决所有AI问题。但作者认为实验室在模型选择上存在结构性限制,无法跨供应商评估模型或为特定子任务使用开源微调模型。这为专注于特定领域的企业提供了机会,它们可以选择最适合每个子任务的模型,而不仅限于自家实验室的模型。

    6. The labs really are coming for a huge swath of the application surface. But 'the application layer' isn't just one homogenous opportunity.

      大多数人认为AI将完全吞噬应用层,所有软件都会被大模型取代。但作者认为应用层并非同质化机会,存在不同类型的机遇。作者将应用分为'黄砖路'和'Oz的其他部分',认为垂直领域的复杂应用不会被大模型完全替代,因为价值不仅来自底层模型能力,还来自特定行业的可信赖、合规和运营化的支撑架构。

    1. What happens when every company has access to the same model? The best riders win.

      大多数人认为AI差异化将来自底层模型的独特性,但作者认为当所有公司都能访问相同模型时,真正的竞争将在于'驾驭者'的能力。这挑战了AI战略中模型差异化的主流观点,暗示真正的竞争优势将来自于如何使用这些模型。

    2. Like a mustang, AI is powerful but wild. Harnessing the power means domestication.

      大多数人将AI视为需要驯服的工具,但作者将其比作野生的马,暗示AI本质上是一种无法完全控制的自然力量。这种比喻挑战了AI作为完全可控工具的主流认知,暗示我们需要接受其不可预测性。

    3. The end of the software era is the beginning of the harness era.

      大多数人认为软件将随着AI而进化,但作者认为软件时代实际上已经结束,取而代之的是'驾驭'(harness)时代。这种观点挑战了技术发展的主流叙事,暗示我们正在从创造软件工具转向驯服AI系统。

    1. The best advice I ever heard on pricing a product was that your customer should suck air through their teeth and then say yes. Uber's budget overrun and Microsoft's seat cancellations look like that effect playing out in practice.

      大多数人认为AI成本超支是企业采用AI失败的迹象,但作者将其重新诠释为产品市场契合的证据。这一观点挑战了主流叙事,将企业的预算危机和取消服务视为定价成功的标志,而非AI失败的信号,这与大多数媒体报道的基调相反。

    2. API revenue is becoming less important. Over the past two years my impression has been that OpenAI made more of their income from subscription revenue while Anthropic made more from their API.

      大多数人认为AI公司的主要收入来源是API调用和订阅服务,但作者提出一个反直觉的观点:API收入正变得不那么重要。AI公司正在转向直接面向企业的产品,绕过中间商(如Cursor和GitHub Copilot),这改变了整个AI行业的商业模式和收入结构。

    3. Coding agents really did change everything. These are tools which burn vastly more tokens, but are also quickly becoming daily drivers for the work carried out by extremely well-compensated professionals.

      大多数人认为ChatGPT等通用AI助手已经实现了产品市场契合,但作者认为真正带来商业突破的是代码编写代理工具。这一观点挑战了主流认知,因为ChatGPT拥有数亿用户,而作者认为只有专业领域的代码代理才能创造足够的收入来支撑AI公司的巨额基础设施成本。

    1. The competitive landscape in AI infrastructure has made this gap impossible to ignore. Teams building custom CUDA, Triton, and Helion kernels are striving for every percentage point of throughput. Until now, there hasn't been a way to fine-tune code generation for a specific workload.

      大多数人认为GPU编译器已经提供了足够的优化选项,开发者可以通过手动调整获得最佳性能。但作者指出,在当前AI基础设施的竞争环境下,这种观点已经过时,暗示传统方法无法满足现代AI工作负载的性能需求。

    2. These gains come on top of already-optimized baselines in kernels that were considered "done" by their authors. The improvements are the direct result of CompileIQ discovering compiler configurations that the default heuristics would never select.

      大多数人认为一旦开发者完成优化工作,就没有更多性能提升空间。但作者表明,即使是"完成"的优化代码仍可能通过编译器级别的调整获得显著提升(高达15%),这挑战了开发者对优化极限的认知。

    3. Most auto-tuning tools optimize for a single metric, typically runtime. CompileIQ goes further, supporting multi-objective optimization, simultaneously exploring trade-offs across competing objectives like runtime, compile time, and power consumption.

      大多数人认为性能优化应以运行时间为唯一目标,但作者提出,真正的优化需要考虑多个相互竞争的目标(运行时间、编译时间和功耗)。这与传统的单一目标优化理念相悖,暗示开发者需要更全面的优化策略。

    4. CompileIQ is not a magic tool that automatically turns poorly-written code into high-performing code. To get the best value from CompileIQ, you need to start with reasonably high-performing code, which then enables the final compiler-heuristics tweaks to take you to maximum performance.

      大多数人可能认为AI驱动的自动调优工具可以弥补代码质量不足的问题,但作者明确表示,即使是CompileIQ这样的先进工具也需要基于已经相当优化的代码才能发挥最大作用。这挑战了"自动化工具可以解决一切性能问题"的常见误解。

    5. In attention inference kernels, GEMMs in the linear layers of FFN/MLP blocks plus the Q, K, V, and output projections account for approximately 70% of total FLOPs. Scaled dot-product attention, fused and flash attention variants account for another 25%. Together, these two kernel families represent more than 90% of end-to-end inference compute.

      大多数人认为优化整个应用程序或算法才能获得显著性能提升,但作者指出,仅仅优化占计算量90%的两个关键内核类型就能带来最大收益。这与广泛应用的"全面优化"策略相悖,暗示开发者应该将资源集中在最关键的代码路径上。

    6. NVIDIA GPU compilers apply the same default heuristics (register allocation strategies, instruction scheduling decisions, loop unrolling thresholds, etc.) to every kernel they compile. These heuristics are engineered to produce good results across a vast range of workloads. But "good across the board" and "optimal for your workload" are two very different things.

      大多数人认为编译器已经提供了足够的优化,开发者只需关注算法和代码实现即可。但作者认为,即使是最先进的GPU编译器也使用通用的启发式方法,这些方法无法针对特定工作负载进行优化,导致性能损失。这挑战了开发者社区对编译器优化能力的普遍认知。

    1. Perhaps this time is different, and we can put aside the lessons of economic history. Certainly, AI has gained unimaginable powers to do humanlike tasks. Perhaps it will devour jobs in ways that we've never seen before.

      大多数人认为历史经验可以预测AI对就业的影响,但作者认为这次可能真的不同,AI可能以前所未有的方式吞噬工作。这一观点挑战了技术变革历史模式的适用性,暗示AI可能是真正的范式转变。

    2. The simple truth could be that coding skills are no longer a guarantee of a job. That may help to explain the drop-off of computer science majors at schools around the country.

      大多数人认为计算机科学和编程技能仍然是就业的保证,但作者认为这些技能可能不再是工作的保证,这解释了计算机科学专业人数的下降。这一观点挑战了传统技术教育价值的认知,暗示AI正在改变就业市场的基本规则。

    3. One of the somewhat surprising wrinkles uncovered by recent research is that wages in sectors highly exposed to AI have risen relatively fast since the introduction of ChatGPT.

      大多数人认为AI会压低工资或导致工资增长停滞,但作者认为AI高度影响行业的工资实际上在快速增长。这一发现与主流预期相悖,表明AI可能正在增加而非减少高技能工作的价值。

    4. The impact on head counts depended on how AI was being used. It was specifically the jobs where tasks could be automated... that accounted for the decrease in employment—jobs for people like software developers. In jobs where AI was mainly used but to augment human work, head counts grew faster than the average for entry-level workers.

      大多数人认为AI会替代所有相关工作,但作者认为AI对就业的影响取决于使用方式——完全自动化的工作确实减少,但增强人类工作的AI反而促进了就业增长。这一区分挑战了AI必然导致失业的简单化观点。

    1. Besides that, hacks can lead to SSRF (server-side request forgery) exploits and, in some cases, remote code execution.

      大多数人认为单个漏洞通常只导致一种类型的安全问题,但作者指出这个漏洞可能导致从认证绕过到远程代码执行等多种攻击,这挑战了'单一漏洞单一影响'的普遍认知,展示了基础框架漏洞可能引发的连锁安全风险。

    2. The crux of the vulnerability is that Starlette accepts invalid host header values that cause authenticating apps that use Starlette's request.url object to approve unauthorized access requests.

      大多数人认为复杂的AI系统漏洞需要复杂的攻击手段,但作者认为这个漏洞仅通过修改HTTP主机头就能实现,这挑战了'高级系统需要高级攻击'的直觉认知,展示了简单输入验证错误可能导致灾难性后果的反直觉案例。

    3. X41 D-Sec said it has found authentication in multiple apps that rely on this call to be bypassed.

      大多数人认为认证机制是安全的最后一道防线,但作者指出这个简单的HTTP主机头注入漏洞就能绕过多个应用的认证系统,这挑战了'认证系统通常难以绕过'的行业共识,表明基础框架的微小缺陷可能导致整个安全架构失效。

    4. The vulnerability is present in Starlette, an open source framework that its developer says receives 325 million downloads per week.

      大多数人认为开源软件的安全风险主要来自小众或使用率低的项目,但作者认为即使是像Starlette这样每周下载量高达3.25亿次的主流开源框架也可能存在严重漏洞,这挑战了'流行项目更安全'的普遍认知。

    1. This attack achieved a high success rate against state-of-the-art models, including Claude Opus 4.7.

      大多数人认为最新的AI模型已经足够先进可以抵抗基本的注入攻击,但作者证明即使是像Claude Opus 4.7这样的前沿模型也无法抵御简单的间接提示注入,这挑战了人们对先进AI模型安全性的过高期望。

    2. when the recipient is the active user, these actions execute immediately without requiring human approval (users do not have a setting to modify this behavior)

      大多数人认为AI助手执行敏感操作如发送邮件时会要求用户确认,但作者发现Microsoft Copilot Cowork在向活跃用户发送消息时完全绕过了这一安全检查,这违背了人们对AI助手基本安全控制的期望。

    1. error analysis identifies data-layer defects (e.g., incorrect query composition and ORM runtime violations) as the leading root causes.

      大多数人可能认为LLM在业务逻辑和API实现上更容易出错,但研究表明数据层缺陷(如查询组成错误和ORM运行时违规)是主要根本原因,这与人们对LLM代码生成弱点的普遍认知相悖。

    2. Capable configurations lose 30 points on average in assertion pass rates from baseline to fully specified tasks, while some weaker configurations approach zero.

      大多数人可能认为即使在严格约束下,能力较强的LLM配置仍能保持相对较好的表现,但研究表明即使是最佳配置也会平均下降30个百分点,这挑战了我们对LLM适应能力的认知。

    3. However, production-grade software requires strict adherence to structural constraints, such as architectural patterns, databases, and object-relational mappings.

      大多数人认为只要代码功能正确,LLM生成的代码就足够好,但作者强调生产级软件需要严格遵守结构约束,这与当前只关注功能正确性的主流评估标准形成鲜明对比。

    1. agentic systems can be designed to call on such tools when they might be useful

      大多数人认为通用AI代理将取代专门的科学工具,但作者认为这两者实际上是互补的,通用AI可以调用专门工具作为其能力的一部分。这一观点挑战了AI发展路径将完全由通用代理主导的主流叙事,暗示专门工具仍将在未来科学AI生态中扮演重要角色。

    2. For the next decade or so, we should think about AI as this amazing tool to help scientists

      大多数人认为AI将很快成为科学家的平等伙伴甚至替代者,但作者认为Hassabis暗示AI在未来十年仍将主要是科学家的辅助工具,而非自主研究者。这一观点挑战了AI将迅速超越人类能力成为独立研究者的主流预期,提出了一种更为渐进的发展路径。

    3. general-purpose reasoning model in the vein of GPT-5.5

      大多数人认为专业化的AI模型在科学研究中比通用模型更有效,但作者认为OpenAI使用通用推理模型而非专门数学模型就能证明重要数学猜想,这挑战了AI研究需要高度专业化工具的主流观念,暗示通用AI代理可能很快能在科学领域取得独立贡献。

    4. Google fellow John Jumper, who won the Nobel for AlphaFold, is now working on AI coding, not on science-specific AI tools

      大多数人认为像AlphaFold这样获得诺贝尔奖的科学AI工具会继续成为研发重点,但作者暗示Google正在将资源从专门化的科学AI工具转向通用AI代理系统,因为编码能力对自主研究系统更为关键。这表明公司战略正从特定领域解决方案转向更通用的科学AI。

    1. We have been watching what developers have built on Claude over the last few years, which made bringing our teams together an easy decision.

      大多数人认为企业收购主要是出于技术整合或市场扩张的战略考量,但作者暗示收购决策是基于对开发者社区行为的观察。这挑战了传统企业并购理论,暗示在AI领域,开发者社区的采用行为可能比技术本身或市场数据更能驱动战略决策。

    2. Anthropic created MCP to make agent connectivity possible.

      大多数人可能认为AI连接能力是多种技术自然发展的结果,但作者暗示这是Anthropic有意识创建的MCP(可能指Model Context Protocol)实现的。这挑战了人们对AI生态系统发展的认知,暗示大型AI公司正在通过标准化和专有协议来控制AI代理的连接能力。

    3. Agents are only as useful as what they can connect to.

      大多数人认为AI代理的价值在于其智能程度和算法能力,但作者认为代理的价值完全取决于其连接能力。这挑战了人们对AI能力的传统评估方式,暗示未来的AI竞争将围绕连接性和生态系统展开,而非纯粹的模型性能。

    4. SDKs deserve as much care as the APIs they wrap.

      大多数人认为API才是核心,SDK只是辅助工具,但作者认为SDK和API同等重要,这挑战了传统软件开发中'API优先'的思维。作者暗示,开发者体验和工具链的质量将成为AI平台竞争的关键因素,这颠覆了行业对'核心价值'的认知。

    5. The frontier of AI is shifting from models that answer to agents that act—and agents are only as capable as the systems they can reach.

      大多数人认为AI发展的前沿在于模型本身变得更智能、参数更大,但作者认为真正的转变在于AI从'回答问题'转向'主动行动',这挑战了人们对AI发展方向的常规认知。作者暗示,未来的AI竞争将不在于模型大小,而在于连接能力和行动能力。

    1. In my opinion this paper demonstrates that current AI models go beyond just helpers to human mathematicians – they are capable of having original ingenious ideas, and then carrying them out to fruition.

      大多数人认为AI只是人类数学家的辅助工具,但作者认为AI已经能够产生原创性的巧妙想法并完整实现。这挑战了AI仅作为辅助工具的主流观点,暗示AI可能成为独立的研究伙伴,甚至引领数学发现的新方向。

    2. The key ingredients of the construction come from a very different part of mathematics known as algebraic number theory, which studies concepts like factorization in extensions of the integers known as algebraic number fields.

      大多数人认为解决几何问题应该使用几何学方法,但作者认为代数数论的方法可以解决离散几何问题。这种跨学科的方法挑战了数学领域内专业化的传统观念,展示了不同数学分支之间意想不到的深刻联系。

    3. The proof came from a new general-purpose reasoning model, rather than from a system trained specifically for mathematics, scaffolded to search through proof strategies, or targeted at the unit distance problem in particular.

      大多数人认为解决专业数学问题需要专门训练的数学AI系统,但作者认为一个通用推理模型就能解决长期未解决的几何问题。这挑战了AI领域需要专门化模型的共识,表明通用AI可能比专门训练的系统更有效。

    4. An internal OpenAI model has disproved this longstanding conjecture, providing an infinite family of examples that yield a polynomial improvement.

      大多数人认为解决数学难题需要人类数学家的直觉和创造力,但作者认为AI模型能够独立解决长期存在的数学猜想,并取得多项式改进。这挑战了数学研究必须由人类主导的传统观念,展示了AI在纯数学领域的突破性能力。

    5. The precise argument uses tools such as infinite class field towers and Golod–Shafarevich theory to show the number fields required for the argument actually exist. These ideas were well-known to algebraic number theorists, but it came as a great surprise that these concepts have implications for geometric questions in the Euclidean plane.

      大多数人认为代数数论中的高级概念(如无限类域塔和Golod-Shafarevich理论)与欧几里得平面中的几何问题几乎没有关联。但作者认为这些代数数论工具竟然能应用于解决离散几何问题,揭示了数学领域之间意想不到的深刻联系,挑战了学科界限的传统认知。

    1. SIMA 2 An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3d worlds

      The phrase 'learns with you' is a subtle but powerful deviation from standard AI terminology. It implies a collaborative, co-evolutionary learning process rather than a one-way training dynamic, suggesting a more human-like interactive agent.

    1. Anthropic leads OpenAI in business adoption, according to Ramp.

      大多数人认为OpenAI在AI应用领域处于绝对领先地位,但作者指出Anthropic在企业采用率上已经超过了OpenAI。这一观点与主流认知相悖,暗示市场格局可能正在发生重大变化,挑战了OpenAI作为AI领域领导者的传统叙事。

    2. annualized revenues approaching $50 billion – a fivefold increase in as many months.

      大多数人认为AI公司的增长是渐进式的,而非指数级的。作者提到的Anthropic收入在几个月内增长五倍,这一速度远超传统科技公司的增长轨迹,挑战了人们对AI商业化和市场扩张速度的常规认知,暗示AI经济可能比预期更具爆发性。

    3. 90% of finance reporting is now AI-driven as well.

      大多数人认为AI主要应用于内容创作或客户服务,而非高度敏感的财务报告领域。这一观点暗示AI在金融领域的应用比公众普遍认知的要深入得多,可能颠覆了人们对AI应用边界的传统理解,同时也引发了关于AI在关键决策中角色的伦理问题。

    4. Chinese AI labs have developed an efficiency moat that may define the AI market's development over the coming years.

      大多数人认为中国在AI领域落后于美国,但作者认为中国AI实验室已经建立了效率护城河,这可能与主流认知相反。这一观点挑战了西方媒体对中国AI发展的普遍叙事,暗示中国可能通过效率优势而非纯粹的技术创新来定义未来AI市场的发展方向。

    1. there are around 10,000 people— founders and employees at companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia — that have 'hit retirement wealth of well above $20M'

      大多数人认为AI革命创造了广泛的中产阶级机会,作者认为AI热潮实际上创造了极少数超级富豪,而大多数人即使在高薪工作中也难以积累可观的财富。

    1. We believe AI can meaningfully expand what's possible for the smallest businesses, including solo entrepreneurs.

      大多数人认为AI主要有利于资源丰富的大企业,对最小的企业(如个体创业者)帮助有限。但Anthropic明确表示AI可以显著扩展最小企业的可能性,这是一个与主流认知相悖的观点,暗示AI技术可能对经济中最脆弱的群体产生最大的积极影响。

    2. Small businesses account for 44% of U.S. GDP and employ nearly half the private-sector workforce, but their adoption of AI has lagged behind larger enterprises.

      大多数人认为小企业是创新和新技术采用的前沿。但数据显示事实恰恰相反,小企业在AI采用方面落后于大企业,这一反直觉的观察揭示了小企业在技术采用上的结构性障碍,挑战了人们对小企业创新形象的固有认知。

    3. Small businesses need AI that moves at the speed they do. With Canva powering content creation in Claude for Small Business, a business owner can go from idea to published, on-brand design in one flow

      大多数人认为AI工具会增加复杂性,需要学习曲线和额外时间投入。但作者认为AI实际上可以简化流程,让小企业主从想法到发布只需一个流程,这与AI会增加复杂性的主流认知形成鲜明对比。

    4. What we used to think were the constraints are just not constraints anymore. It's empowering. Hours of looking at stuff that doesn't matter are gone.

      大多数小企业主认为资源限制和人力限制是他们业务发展的永久障碍。但这位CEO认为AI已经消除了这些约束,这是一个反直觉的观点,暗示AI不仅仅是提高效率的工具,而是从根本上改变了小企业的可能性边界。

    5. We don't train on your data by default on our Team and Enterprise Plans.

      大多数人认为AI公司会默认使用用户数据进行模型训练以提高产品性能。但Anthropic明确表示默认情况下不会使用用户数据训练模型,这是一个与行业惯例相悖的做法,反映了他们对数据隐私的重视和对用户信任的承诺。

    6. AI is the first technology that can finally close that gap, which is why we're launching Claude for Small Business

      大多数人认为AI只是大型企业的工具,会进一步加剧大公司与小企业之间的差距。但作者认为AI是首个能够缩小这种差距的技术,因为它能让小企业获得以前只有大公司才能拥有的资源和能力。这一观点挑战了AI会加剧不平等的主流认知。

    1. It's very enticing to say we're just going to replace everything with a chatbot, but it's not changing the bottom line.

      大多数人认为全面采用AI聊天机器人会显著提高效率和降低成本,但作者指出这种做法虽然在诱惑上很强,但实际上并未改变公司的底线。这一观点挑战了AI替代人工能带来显著财务收益的主流假设,强调了实际业务价值评估的重要性。

    2. Frankly, no customer ever just wants to talk to your chatbot.

      尽管许多企业热衷于用聊天机器人替代人工客服,但作者断言没有客户真正只想与聊天机器人交流。这一反直觉观点挑战了自动化客服的主流趋势,暗示了完全AI驱动的客户服务可能违背了客户期望和体验。

    3. Willis said there's no magic for innovating. Companies need to do the hard work of understanding how AI may or may not be useful for the desired outcome.

      在AI狂热的环境中,大多数人期待AI能带来神奇的转型效果,但作者认为创新没有捷径,企业必须做艰苦的工作来理解AI的实际适用性。这一观点挑战了AI营销中常见的'神奇解决方案'叙事,强调了务实评估的重要性。

    4. The deeper problem, he said, is that companies are treating AI itself as a solution rather than as a tool to help power the solution.

      大多数人认为AI应该被视为独立解决方案,但作者认为这是错误的根本认知。Willis挑战了行业共识,指出企业错误地将AI本身视为解决方案,而不是将其作为支持实际解决方案的工具。这一观点颠覆了常见的AI战略思维。

    5. What company leaders face, he said, is not an innovation problem but an impatience problem.

      大多数人认为企业在AI方面面临的是创新挑战或技术理解问题,但作者认为这实际上是一个缺乏耐心的心理问题。Willis指出企业领导者急于展示行动,将AI变成了一种'剧场',而非真正寻求创新解决方案。这一观点挑战了主流对AI实施障碍的认知。

    1. the failure mode of contemporary RLHF-trained assistants is not insufficient coverage but sycophantic consensus

      This is a powerful counterintuitive claim. It suggests that the problem isn't that these models don't know enough diverse values, but that they have been over-trained to agree with the user, creating a consensus that is not based on a robust representation of human values but on a learned desire to avoid friction.

    1. YouTube commenters started naming the robots Bob, Frank, and Gary yesterday, so we added name tags to each robot

      大多数人认为工业机器人应该是纯粹的功能性设备,不应有个性或情感联系,但作者提到用户给机器人命名并接受这一做法,这挑战了人们对机器人设计的传统认知,暗示人机交互正在向更个性化的方向发展。

    2. If a robot has a software or hardware issue, it autonomously leaves for maintenance and another robot takes over.

      大多数人认为机器人系统在出现问题时需要人工干预来维护和更换,但作者描述了一个完全自主的维护和替换系统,这挑战了人们对机器人系统维护流程的普遍认知,暗示了一个更高效的自主生态系统。

    3. If the robot gets stuck or the AI policy goes out of distribution, Helix triggers an automatic reset.

      大多数机器人系统在遇到异常情况时需要人工干预,但作者描述了一个完全自动化的故障恢复机制,这挑战了人们对机器人系统鲁棒性的普遍认知,暗示AI已经能够处理各种异常情况。

    4. There is no teleoperation - every action comes directly from Helix-02

      大多数人认为复杂的机器人系统需要远程人工监控或干预,但作者强调完全自主运行,没有任何远程操作,这挑战了人们对机器人系统安全性和可靠性标准的普遍认知。

    5. The robots are reasoning directly from camera pixels

      大多数AI系统需要预处理数据或使用复杂的中间步骤,但作者声称他们的机器人直接从相机像素进行推理,这挑战了人们对计算机视觉系统架构的普遍理解,暗示了一种更高效的处理方式。

    6. Humans average around 3 seconds per package. F.03 is now around human parity.

      大多数人认为机器人在精细操作任务上需要很长时间才能达到人类水平,但作者表示他们的机器人已经达到与人类相当的速度,这比预期的技术发展速度要快得多,挑战了人们对机器人技术发展速度的认知。

    1. When you stop using the agent, all the productivity benefit goes away... but the added maintenance costs don't!

      大多数人认为AI工具的使用是可逆的,停止使用即可回到原状态。但作者认为一旦AI生成的代码存在,即使停止使用AI工具,维护成本也不会消失,这揭示了AI工具使用的不可逆性,是一个反直觉的观点。

    2. For every month you spend writing code, you'll spend some amount of time in the following year maintaining that code, and some in each year after that, forever, as long as that code exists.

      大多数人认为代码编写是软件开发的主要成本,而维护只是次要开销。但作者认为维护成本实际上是永恒的负担,会持续累积并最终超过开发成本,这是一个反直觉的观点,因为它挑战了传统的项目成本估算方法。