About This Project
Why This Exists
We're living through the fastest technological revolution in human history, and it's moving so fast that we're forgetting what we were debating three months ago.
Questions that seemed genuinely open — “are hallucinations a fundamental problem?” “will AI costs keep falling?” — get resolved in months, not years. By the time you form an opinion, the evidence has already moved.
This project exists to document that velocity. To track what we thought, when we thought it, and how fast reality caught up.
The Speed of Resolution
The pattern is striking: questions enter mainstream discourse, get debated for a few months, and then resolve — usually faster than anyone predicted.
In 2023, “hallucinations” was the #1 objection to AI adoption. By 2025, it was a solved engineering problem. In early 2024, 8K context was standard. By late 2025, 200K-1M was the norm — a 100x increase in 18 months. It feels like watching history in fast-forward.
🔓 How to Contribute
📝 Open an Issue — to discuss
- • Debate whether a question is correctly resolved
- • Propose a missing event or question
- • Challenge framing or analysis
- • Start a broader discussion
Issues are for talking. No changes needed.
Open an Issue →🔀 Open a PR — to ship
- • Add a timeline event (edit timeline.json)
- • Add or update a question (edit questions.json)
- • Fix a date, link, or factual error
- • Improve the site UI or code
PRs are for shipping. You've made the change.
Open a PR →Typical flow
Not sure? Start with an Issue. Know exactly what to change? Go straight to a PR.
Style
This isn't a neutral encyclopedia. It's objective facts mixed with journalistic interpretive overlay. We track what happened (facts) and what it means (analysis). The analysis is opinionated by design — and open to challenge via PRs.
Credits
Created by Jai An and friends. Built with AI (naturally). Hosted on Deva GitHub.