Your quick wins ran out six months ago. Nobody planned for what comes…
Easy never described how much work it was. It described how many questions had already been settled. One backlog line taken apart, fifteen minutes to sort your own, and the four-box grid.
Your quarter started faster than you expected. Three quarters of the list is checked off, and what is left no longer looks like tasks. On 8 September, OpenAI published a result on a maths problem that had been open for decades, reached in 88 hours with roughly ten thousand agents running in parallel. The next day, Terence Tao replied that these problems are being mined like a resource that does not grow back. What this means for you (PM, founder, tech lead): your "easy" column is an inherited seam, not a spring that refills. This week: count what is left in it, and look at what happens when it runs dry. Why now: shipping just got a notch cheaper, so the seam empties faster than it used to. · · · <!-- order:freeform --> The word Tao chose The result itself is not the point. What…