Reading up on Ethan Mollick

The essay proposes the new word 'zuzai' to denote anything created without AI, arguing existing terms are insufficient and suggests it could convey authenticity and quality.

Ethan Mollick finds Claude 5 Fable (Mythos-class) is a major leap over prior models, capable of autonomously executing multi-hour projects, but shifts his role from wizard to patron as the AI's internal decision-making becomes a black box.

AI has entered a new agentic era where models can autonomously complete hours of human work, and exponential capability improvements are now driving radical organizational experiments like StrongDM's "Software Factory" that ships code without human touching it.