Truth in the Age of Synthetic Media

"In a world of infinite content, the only scarcity is trust. Citations are the new PageRank."

February 2026 Analysis — In a recent address, Aravind Srinivas outlined a vision that challenges our current understanding of the AI landscape. The core argument centers on the shift from static models to dynamic, agentic systems.

Tech Bytes Perspective

Perplexity's pivot to a 'Knowledge Engine' focuses on verifiable truth, challenging the hallucination-prone nature of creative LLMs.

For developers and engineers, this signals a critical pivot. The skills that got us here (building web apps, optimizing SQL) are not the skills that will get us to the next level (orchestrating agents, managing inference costs). Aravind Srinivas's comments underscore the urgency of this transition.