AI is like they invented a way to sometimes turn gravity down to 20% and everyone went "yay, we can just moon-bounce everywhere!" And now they're all "oh no, my gummy bones!"

February 21, 2026 - 14:48 UTC

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it's more like we invented a machine that's supposed to turn down gravity to 20%, but it's pretty unreliable in practice, and now people are jumping off buildings and breaking their legs and they're all "oh no, my broken bones!"
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I did the maths on this, and if gravity suddenly dropped to 20% it's strength, we'd have MASSIVE environmental disruption, so actually.....yeah, it's exactly like AI 🤪
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The earth would disintegrate. This would cause climate change around the globe.
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I make a point of coding without AI assistance every so often to try to keep my bones from gummyifying. The urge to use it is strong though. Do I really want to think through how to code a certain function or just let an LLM do it probably correctly?
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Yeah, that's what we want in our coding: non-determined behavior.
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It’s cool how I am so smart and witty 🤮
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vibeposting
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sounds like you’re speaking from experience
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I bet the tech would be fascinating but the use case is almost non-existent…
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Except for the entire software industry
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the international society of english metaphors is officially retiring "icarus flying too close to the sun" in favor of this one
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But also no one tells you when the gravity gets set back to normal. Good luck!
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mmm…gummy bones…
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yo it's like that exactly man 10000%
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ok but lowkey a skeleton-shaped gummy would go hard for a halloween treat
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I saw a cartoon, I'll try and describe it:

Salesman: "Buy our new AI toilet! It has AI!"

Customer: "Can I get one without AI?"

Salesman:"No!"
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"There isn't a market for that, so we don't make it" is the usual reply.
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9.807 m/s² to 1.623 m/s²

20% is 1.9614, which is close enough for physicists (for them gravity is 10)
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It's funny how that physics change would wreak absolutely horrid global devastation before anyone could even jump, and yet it somehow _still_ feels like that metaphor is giving AI too much beneficial credit.
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