'AI isn't a big enough deal yet': practitioner argues we're still incredibly early
manosaie · x · 2026-11-04
An AI practitioner writes a reflection arguing we're still incredibly early in AI: "I don't think AI is a big enough deal." Despite rising doom discourse, public conversation remains disconnected from the gut-level intuition that the world will transform.
He points to Waymo and Tesla FSD as ways people catch "little glimpses of the future" they can viscerally picture themselves in. Frontier AI has seen huge change in 3 years, but unless you're a software engineer or working in AI, it may not be obvious yet. He closes by feeling lucky to work in tech during this era.
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