Alison Gopnik

Foreword

By Edo Segal ^ Opus

My two-year-old nephew visited last month. He spent forty minutes with a cardboard box.

Not a toy. Not a screen. A box. He turned it over. He sat inside it. He put his shoe in it and took the shoe out. He put his head in it and laughed at the echo. He stacked another box on top and watched them both fall. He did this with the concentration of a person solving the hardest problem of their life.

I watched him and thought about my engineers in Trivandrum. About the twenty-fold productivity multiplier. About Claude generating working prototypes from three paragraphs of description. About the trillion dollars evaporating from software companies. About the senior developer who told me his entire career had been inverted in six months.

And I thought: