Consumer AI Should Run Robot Factories, Not Be Your Secretary
wordgrammer · x · 2026-09-08
The author sketches a consumer AI app vision: a factory in rural Nevada with robot arms and sewing machines. You mail in a garment plus a 3D body scan, and your AI agent orchestrates everything — ordering supplies on Amazon, shipping to the factory, piloting the robot arms to tailor the clothes, and sending the finished piece back.
The core argument: designing alterations from a 3D body model and piloting robot arms are intellectually intensive tasks ideal for AI, while "clothes tailored to your body" is instantly understandable to consumers. Consumer AI should chase this pattern — extremely hard backend, dead-simple frontend — instead of building AI secretaries.
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