"Humanity on the Eve of a Productivity Explosion" Two Shocks for a Retired Programmer and Machine Learning Researcher The first was the 2023 ChatGPT, which showed me that AI intelligence surpassed my imagination. The second was a few days ago using Vibe Coding (cursor, Lovable). The smoothness of writing and deploying front-end and back-end code in natural language left me speechless. Basically, what a team does in a week can be done by one person in two hours. Productivity increased by nearly 100 times—isn't that terrifying?