> The last two epoch-defining shifts in technology were the smartphone in the 2000s, and the Internet/web in the 1990s. Neither of those moments generated this sort of mainstream popular backlash. (...) People were optimistically curious. The single most distinctive thing about “AI” today is the vociferous public opposition to it and deeply pessimistic expectations about what it’s going to do.
> “Software brain” is a good term — a tidy two-word encapsulation of a sprawling worldview that is currently very much in vogue. Take some time to read Patel’s whole piece carefully. It feels important, and it’s really well considered.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/23/patel-software-brain
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on product > A lot of people hate AI. (...) There’s that NBC News poll showing AI with worse favorability than ICE and only a little bit above the war in Iran and the Democrats. (...) Gallup poll found that only 18 percent of Gen Z was hopeful about AI, down from an…Daring Fireball Nilay Patel: ‘Beware Software Brain’ Link to: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation
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