AI builders say they feel like they live two lives on the same timeline

RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-07-26

A long personal post describes the feeling of living two lives at once in the age of AI.

On one side is the sci-fi world of building “pieces of humanity’s future”; on the other is ordinary family life that still feels unchanged. The author says that gap is disorienting and hard to reconcile, and ends by urging people not to forget to slow down and smell the roses.

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