Three hours touring NYC's port, not one mention of "agentic"
shekitup · x · 2026-10-19
During NYC's Open House, the author toured the city's container terminals (photos show Port Liberty cranes and giant MSC, CMA CGM and Evergreen ships) and observed the disconnect between the AI bubble and physical logistics: in three hours, nobody mentioned "agentic" or AI even once.
A light but telling observation on the temperature gap between AI discourse and the physical economy.
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