'AI grim reaper loves arrogant purists': AI circle mocks fields first 'headshotted' by engineers
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-12
A snarky X exchange around the viral 'AI grim reaper' meme mocking professions being displaced by AI. The author derides 'arrogant purists': how precious can your 'pure field' be if it's the first to get 'boom headshotted by lowly engineers'?
It's an AI-circle culture spat riffing on the meme of elite fields being the first taken down by AI tooling built by engineers.
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