Optimus meme sparks debate: if robots build robots, who pushes the update button?
TansuYegen · x · 2026-10-03
Quoting a LunarOptimus post teasing that Tesla's Optimus will build cars and then themselves, Tansu Yegen quips that if robots build robots, the real bottleneck isn't labor — it's who gets to push the update button. "Either the future of productivity or the world's most expensive group project."
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