Peter Yang: AI will never disrupt selling handmade trinkets at the farmer's market
petergyang · x · 2026-10-29
Product leader and writer Peter Yang tweeted that the one job AI will never disrupt is selling your handmade trinkets at the local farmer's market — predicting a coming renaissance for farmers markets.
The quip gestures at an asymmetric reading of AI's disruption: digital, automatable work gets rewritten first, while offline, handmade, human-anchored economies may gain value from scarcity.
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