Is AGI paradoxical?

A developer types implement user authentication and watches as Cursor generates 50 lines of secure, production-ready code in seconds. It’s remarkable—the AI understands context, follows best practices, even adds appropriate error handling. But here’s what’s fascinating: every pattern it used was learned from millions of human-written codebases. The AI didn’t invent authentication; it synthesized decades of human security knowledge at unprecedented speed.
This same pattern plays out across today’s most impressive AI systems as we pursue Artificial General Intelligence.