Brianne Kimmel: the friend group split between AGI doom loops and living the agent era
briannekimmel · x · 2026-09-12
Investor Brianne Kimmel's essay "The Ferris Bueller era for agents" describes a divide she noticed at a San Francisco dinner: everyone agrees the future will look very different, but attitudes split sharply —
- One camp is stuck in a doom loop, endlessly debating when AGI arrives and what the future holds.
- The other is making the most of agents right now: booking hard-to-get restaurant reservations, planning trips for far less than expected, picking up hobbies, and completely changing how they work.
Borrowing the Ferris Bueller reference, her point: rather than anxiously predicting the future, enjoy the present tooling boom — maybe even get into a little trouble.
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