'We are the cows of the future': tech workers think they're immune to AI disruption
iamaliveix · x · 2026-10-19
A widely shared analogy: people in tech believe they know what's coming for the 'normies,' yet somehow think they're immune to AI fundamentally changing their own lives. The cows probably thought they were doing just fine, too.
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