New-grad big tech engineer sums up the industry: "we made sand think"
var_epsilon · x · 2026-11-12
A new-grad CS major who started their first big tech job a few months ago described the industry in five words: "we made sand think."
The line is circulating as a fittingly terse description of AI — silicon, electricity and algorithms producing something that appears to think.
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