AI Twitter vs reality: online it's AGI doom, offline people just learned ChatGPT can code
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-26
Layton Gott mocks how spending all day on X gives a badly distorted view of AI progress: the timeline says "AGI is so close," "RSI achieved," "robots will kill us all," and some new model is about to end civilization.
Step outside, though, and regular people are still reacting with "wait, ChatGPT can code?" — highlighting the hilarious gap between AI Twitter and the real world.
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