Surfing Generative AI: A Long View of the AI Wave from the 1950's to 2025 and Autonomous Agents

I wrote this to be the article you need to hand someone who wonders "where did AI come from and how did we get here?" From the 1950's to autonomous agents in 2025, here's how it unfolded...

If you know LLMs well, some of this will be easy for you to follow and you’ll nod along. But even if you understand LLMs well enough to fine-tune your own model, I think it’s still healthy to have a clear understanding of how we got here and how the past sets us up for the future. So share this with the person in your life who’s constantly asking where …