Dev: Most of My Friends Deny AI Is Even Useful — Adoption Wave Still Ahead
javilop · x · 2026-10-11
Spanish dev javilop posted a viral thread noting his lifelong friends are in "absolute denial" about AI — not debating AGI, but denying it helps their computer-based work at all. His takeaways: serious AI adoption is still tiny, implying massive future compute/GPU demand; early adopters have a window to out-earn deniers "absurdly"; and the social reckoning may be brutal, with only months-to-years before AI beats the best humans at everything while the public sleepwalks into the wall. "Curves are coming."
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