Refusing AI Help Feels Like a Toddler Insisting on Putting On Their Own Shoes
moultano · x · 2026-10-07
An engineer observes that his desire to do things himself instead of letting a model help now feels eerily similar to his toddlers' insistence on putting on their own shoes — a resonant metaphor about pride and autonomy in the AI era.
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