The AI bubble view: 99% of people outside X still think AI is the Terminator
natesiggard · x · 2026-10-05
The author warns heavy AI users about survivorship bias: smart people should stop and ask whether anyone could actually sit down with Claude and rebuild an entire IoT hardware system 10 hours later. The answer is no.
He points out that 99% of people not on X still imagine AI as the Terminator — the insider sense that "AI can do everything" is not the general public's reality. A take on the perception gap between the AI bubble and ordinary users.
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