Jean-Baptiste Say
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Jean-Baptiste Say. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Jean-Baptiste Say's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The adoption curve that no one predicted was the one I should have understood best.
I have spent my entire career launching products. I have watched metrics climb and flatten and occasionally crater. I know what an S-curve looks like. I know the patience required to educate a market, the slow grind of turning skeptics into users into evangelists. I have lived inside that grind for decades.
So when Claude Code's adoption went vertical — not steep, not impressive, but vertical, the way a wall is vertical — I did not have a framework for what I was seeing. The curve did not look like any product launch I had ever witnessed or studied. It looked like something breaking.
It was something breaking. A constraint
