The Iceberg Is Already Here, but Most People Are Still Watching the Surface

At the end of 2022, ChatGPT had just appeared. It still felt like a toy. By 2025, it had cut through the entire software industry. Only two years sat between those moments. In 2023, you could throw a few questions at it. The answers were rough, brittle under follow-up, like a toy that happened to talk. In 2024, it started taking real work. AI began showing up in the daily flow of work. By 2025, it…