So this is purest speculation on my part. But watching the incredibly complex multi-domain rescue mission this weekend, it suddenly struck me that new, powerful AI might be behind this. Moving all these units into so many places at once, making sure that they have communications organized, fuel, ammunition, food, the right troops with the right transports, and so on is enormously complex. It normally requires the work of hundreds of staffers to do this sort of thing, and that takes time. But it happened awfully fast, and nearly flawlessly.
As Wretchard put it:
The most interesting aspect of the weapons officer rescue in Iran was CENTCOM's ability to use so many disparate personnel and capabilities in such a rapid and integrated way. They were making it up as they went along with complex tools and time critical sequences.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 5, 2026
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As someone who used to use computers to (literally) improvise new tunes from fragments of songs I got to thinking that all that staff work is the kind of thing that AI is good at. I was talking last night over backyard beers with my neighbor, a CTO who is doing a lot of interesting stuff for his company with AI, and with his son, who is starting up his own, very interesting, AI-based business, and both of their approaches basically use AI to do in minutes what normally takes groups of staffers hours or days to do.
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