Backyard beer-brewing test shows how little normal people care about AI
LoganGrasby · x · 2026-09-11
A viral thread argues tech people wildly overestimate mainstream AI adoption, backed by a backyard case study: four college-educated professionals had only used ChatGPT for emails, one thought Claude was made by Google, and the idea of everyone prompting their own software only applies to a small subset of people. X's AI-heavy crowd is a textbook false consensus effect.
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