Imagine telling someone in 2020 that AI would soon be writing production code, building apps, analyzing research, and handling work that once took entire teams.
They probably wouldn't believe you.
Yet here we are.
A few years ago, we were impressed when AI could write a decent paragraph.
Today, we're asking it to build software, analyze research, reason through problems, and coordinate entire workflows.
But something interesting happened along the way.
As AI became more capable, our expectations changed.
We stopped asking, “Can AI do this?”
And started asking, “Can AI understand what I'm actually trying to achieve?”
Because generating an answer is one thing.
Understanding the person, their goals, previous decisions, and the reasoning behind their work is something else entirely.
The last few years were about making AI more capable.
The next few may be about making AI more personal.
Not just intelligence that knows more about the world.
Intelligence that understands more about the person it's working with.