Update
This is the origin log. The one I’ll link to when signing off other log entries —etched here to explain what During the Upload really is.
Observation
My name is David. I'm a a husband & dad of newborn twins, and a developer who’s been working with LLMs since the early days. My startup builds with AI. My side projects explore its edges. Most nights, I’m knee-deep in prompts while a bottle sits ready in the humming warmer.
This blog is a time capsule. Each post reacts to news, reflects on the moment, and explores how I might earn my freedom through this AI wave. I send them to my future self using Email Your Future Self, scheduled to arrive in one, five, ten, and twenty years. It’s not solely for predictions (though I’ll track those). It’s for perspective. AI moves too fast for memory alone. I want to remember how this felt, not just what happened.
We’re not pre-AGI. We’re not post-singularity. We might just be at the peak of a hype bubble. In time, this could all look foolish. But we’re here, now, in the middle of something—what I’m calling the upload. Every day, the models get a little more capable. Every day, something once hard becomes trivial. Every day, I reevaluate what to automate, what to delegate, and what to preserve.
And in parallel, I’m raising children. Chloe and Theo are four months old as I write this. They smile often now. They’ve started to giggle. They are here, present, evolving just as quickly in their own way. They won’t remember this phase. But I will, with the help of this blog.
The philosophy here is teleological—Adler, not Freud. I’m not dissecting the past. I’m projecting toward a purpose. Writing in motion. Logging with intent. I’m more interested in where this is going than where it came from.
That’s the spirit of During the Upload: quiet entries written from the middle of a massive shift. Human, technical, personal.
Capsule Note
The protocol is set: write for the future to stay anchored in the present.
Footnote
Quotes on AI from notable figures alive today:
“Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential.”
— Ray Kurzweil“We should all hope for a world where intelligence is too cheap to meter.”
— Sam Altman“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.”
— Eliezer Yudkowsky“AI is very scary, but we absolutely have to win, because if we don't win, China will win.”
— Donald Trump“The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
— William Gibson“I would not be surprised if we’re approaching the last generation of humans.”
— Geoffrey Hinton“Superintelligence could be the last invention we ever need to make—if we do it right.”
— Nick Bostrom“We're summoning the demon.”
— Elon Musk“It's 80% Likely to Be Great, But 20% Could Spell Disaster.”
— Also Elon Musk“AI will not destroy humanity. But it will change what it means to be human.”
— Kevin Kelly“We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.”
— Klaus Schwab“The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety.”
— JD Vance“I just don’t want it to turn into corporate propaganda.”
— Dario Amodei“Being afraid of AI is stupid.”
— Naval Ravikant“Don’t die.”
— Bryan Johnson