Format Web Page "Google was publicly demoing Project Glass in 2012, long after Graham’s essay." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title Project Glass demo: Hangouts IN Air Source authors Sergey Brin Source year 2012 Confidence high Importance low
Format Online paper / PDF "The Transformer architecture behind today’s LLM boom arrived in 2017." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title Attention Is All You Need Source authors Ashish Vaswani; Noam Shazeer; Niki Parmar; Jakob Uszkoreit; Llion Jones; Aidan N. Gomez; Lukasz Kaiser; Illia Polosukhin Source year 2017 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Apple’s App Store launched in 2008 with 500 apps and passed 50 billion downloads by 2013." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title Apple’s App Store Marks Historic 50 Billionth Download Source authors Apple Source year 2013 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Ethereum was conceived in 2013 and its network launched in 2015." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title History of Ethereum: founder, launch and ownership Source authors Ethereum.org Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Bitcoin arrived years after Graham’s glory-days-of-hacking claim, with Nakamoto announcing it in 2008." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper Source authors Satoshi Nakamoto Source year 2008 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "The modern commercial cloud wave represented by AWS arrived after Graham’s essay, with AWS launching in 2006." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title Our Origins Source authors Amazon Web Services Source year 2006 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Paul Graham argued that people burn through most of a new medium’s possibilities within its first couple of generations." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title Hackers and Painters Source authors Paul Graham Source year 2003 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Paul Graham’s Hackers & Painters landed as a book in 2004." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age Source authors O'Reilly Media Source year 2004 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Podcast / Spotify embed "Amodei later said models could do software engineering end-to-end in a year or two and that 90 percent less demand for SWEs is a stage he thinks will happen." Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential" Source authors Dwarkesh Patel Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "The headlines really did frame Amodei as saying AI could replace software engineers within six to twelve months." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 5: HISTORY NEVER ENDS History never ends - Root Source title Anthropic CEO Says AI Could Replace Software Engineers in 6 to 12 Months Source authors Jonathan Small Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance high
