There is a version of the superintelligence story where no one has a breakthrough. No new insight about cognition. Just the same optimization loop we already use, at scale, with better search and longer horizons.

The scary part: the ingredients are already on the shelf. Scale, verifiable objectives, and iterative self-improvement. The mundane path to superintelligence might be the most likely one.

https://metafunctor.com/post/2026-03-15-superintelligence-build-system/