Etymology meme: 'awe' comes from Old Norse — and it spells 'agi'
matdryhurst · x · 2026-09-26
Artist matdryhurst quotes a 15-year veteran who used agentic coding to finish in minutes what used to take months, then looked up the etymology of 'awe' — extreme reverence and dread — derived from Old Norse: 'agi'. A fitting AI-circle pun about the mix of excitement and terror.
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