How I Came to Understand the 100x Claim

2026-02-24 How I Came to Understand the 100x Claim First people bragged about 3-5x productivity gains from AI, then 10x, and now 100x. Usually without much clarity beyond references to parallelism and orchestration. I&rsquo;d read these claims and think, OK, but what does that actually look like? What are you doing differently that gets you there? I was skeptical for a while. Then I lived through…