AI evangelist returns home for Mid-Autumn Festival, family dismisses his AGI warnings
huangyun_122 · x · 2026-09-29
An AI practitioner returned to his hometown of Wuxi for the Mid-Autumn Festival and eagerly told his family that Claude, ChatGPT, Vibe Coding and FDE are the future — and that humans are doomed. Nobody listened; young and old alike thought he was crazy.
The family talked about civil-service exams, engineering jobs and tutoring classes — topics he couldn't join at all. His father said studying had made him dumb, leaving him stunned at how slow everyone else's world still is.
The post captures the stark cognitive gap between the AI bubble and ordinary people whose daily lives remain untouched by it.
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