I wonder how many more people in tech have those felony records but just never talk about it. The Preston Thorpe mention makes me think there's a whole underground network.
They claim it beat Pokemon FireRed with vision only, no maps or extra tools. That's cute but I'd rather see real-world benchmarks that matter, not games.
The real shift might be that the value is moving from knowing the answers to knowing which questions to ask. The domain expert who steers the AI well will still have a job, just a different one.