Scaling Up: February 2027
January 24, 2027
New lab space is 10x the size. New team members from MIT, Stanford, DeepMind. New compute cluster that costs more than my childhood home.
Whatever we're building in 2027, it's not a prototype anymore.
It's production-scale.
February 19, 2027
Lunch debate: "At what parameter count does a language model develop something that looks like reasoning?"
The person next to me whispered: "We passed that point 3 months ago."
I really hope they were joking.
March 8, 2027
Quantum team just achieved [REDACTED] qubit count with [REDACTED] error rate.
For context: That's the threshold where certain algorithms become practical.
Certain algorithms that break certain things.
They're very excited. I'm very nervous.
Production scale meant what we built would actually deploy.
To real users. In the real world.
No more "just research."
— Recovered from personal archive, 2030
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