Chuck

it’s crazy how the Silicon Valley finale ended with AI discovering a math breakthrough that could break up the world’s encryption. in the show, the AI wasn’t even trying to break encryption. it just stumbled upon the discovery while recursively improving Pied Piper’s compression algorithm and itself, without any engineers guiding the process. now 7 years later, with OpenAI’s math and Anthropic’s cryptanalysis progress, watching that ending hits a little different. man this show was really ahead of its time, not talking about it “predicting” anything but just the sheer range of things its writers could imagine back then.