Past the Event Horizon - Why "AI Replacing Developers" Is the Wrong Frame

In June 2025, Sam Altman published a blog post titled “The Gentle Singularity,” in which he made a declaration that would have sounded insane just three years prior: “We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started” . To the uninitiated, this summons images of science fiction—robots walking the streets or a sudden, dramatic rupture in reality. Yet, as Altman noted, the world looks largely…