The Kuhn Paradigm Shift
What is happening with AI is a Kuhnian paradigm shift — not incremental improvement but a wholesale change in the conceptual framework through which work, software, and knowledge are understood. John identified identical Kuhnian defence patterns across software engineering, product design, and NLP/AI research: "They're wanting to prove something, not learn something." This is multi-front, not just software.
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This thesis is qualitative — its evidence lives in the signals feed and the research system rather than a price series.
Recent evidence 274 signals filed
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- Full analysis — the complete living document behind this call
- Version history — watch the thesis evolve, v1 → v38, with change notes
- Evidence archive — all 274 signals filed to this thesis
- The knowledge graph — entities, concepts & comparisons behind the call
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2 theses are currently moving against us — Microsoft Has Lost the Plot, +34.4% since published; The SaaS Apocalypse, +54.7% since published. They stay on the board. We update priors on evidence, not on evidence we went looking for.