Sequoia Partner Compares AI to Industrial Revolution

Konstantine, a Sequoia partner, posted a piece reflecting on the cognitive revolution. The post states that the industrial revolution shifted physical work from 99 percent biological to 99.9 percent machine over two centuries. It adds that a century ago 99 percent of cognitive work was done by humans. One quoted line reads: "The Industrial Revolution gave a farmhand's son forty years to become a factory hand. This revolution may offer five." Multiple Sequoia accounts and partners including Alfred Lin, Shaun Maguire, and Jess Lee amplified the post on X.