What 100× actually looks like — measured over 24 hours — and what 600 years of disrupted skilled labor say about who wins next. 1476, Paris In 1476 , a group of Paris scribes broke into Johann Heynlin's printing shop and destroyed his press. They had a real grievance. A press could reproduce a book in a day; a scribe needed a year. The math was unforgiving: one machine, one operator, 300× the output. [1] I keep thinking about those scribes. Not because of the violence. Because of the math they refused to do. We are running the same math right now in software, and most of the industry is still debating whether the press exists. Here's what 24 hours looked like. 1. The numbers, by artefact Just me, one AI coding tool and solid plan (it took 1 week create it), working in tandem on a real production codebase for a single 24-hour stretch. Measured, not estimated.…