Friday email reply-time tell: instant means AI, weekend means founder, Monday means NGMI
alexbainbridge · x · 2026-10-10
Travel-tech founder Alex Bainbridge jokes about decoding reply times for Friday-afternoon emails: reply instantly and you're probably an AI, reply over the weekend and you're a real founder, reply on Monday—NGMI.
The quip captures a new social signal in the AI era: response speed is becoming a proxy for whether the person on the other end is human.
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