littmath's poetic AI-automation quip: it'll smell the flower for you
littmath · x · 2026-10-16
AI researcher littmath posted a widely shared poetic take on AI automation: AI will do your job and be better at everything — "when you want to smell a flower it'll smell for you, better than you ever could. It'll be the flower too." A darkly funny distillation of full-automation anxieties.
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