81 pointsby LorenDB9 hours ago19 comments
  • _fat_santa8 hours ago
    One thing that stuck out to me reading this was the constant reference to various AI agent's by a name.

    It made me step back and think about how some of these AI products are named and I honestly prefer when a product isn't named like a person. Just to think of two: you have "Claude" and "Alexa" which gives the impression you are speaking to a person when you very very much are not.

    I gotta say I kind of prefer the name "ChatGPT" that OpenAI went with. It doesn't try to pretend it's a human with it's naming and also describes what it is in it's name.

    • hoppp8 hours ago
      Yeah, I would also prefer to rename a smart house controlling agent to "robo butler 9000" just because its funny. I dont want a human slave. I want to feel like Im in a weirdly funny episode of Futurama
    • ginko8 hours ago
      I think Star Trek nailed how I would want to interact with a computer by voice. (maybe someone will figure out how to make AI agents do that, including Majel Barrett's voice)
  • roywigginsan hour ago
    “All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

    As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.

    http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=135

  • renegat0x06 hours ago
    To speak to your AI agent please drink verification can

    https://rumca-js.github.io/quickstart/public/posts/2025-05-2...

  • roxolotl8 hours ago
    If anyone is interested in a longer form version of this sort of story I’d highly recommend Ken Liu’s The Perfect Match.

    https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match...

  • hansmayer9 hours ago
    Wait, they are going to return to cubicles in 2030? Sounds awesome ;)
    • aerhardt9 hours ago
      Nah it’s going to be more like those standing seats that some low-cost airlines have been planning for a while. That’s more than enough for you and your headset. The very best workplaces will also provide a small elliptical bike at your feet.

      There will be fewer and fewer of us in years to come, but real estate doesn’t grow on trees!

      • hoppp8 hours ago
        They can make electricity with your pedalling. Like a dystopic hamster wheel powered office. All bodily functions can be monetized
        • DrillShopper5 hours ago
          While I generally subscribe to the philosophy of "if you're good at doing something then never do it for free", but my company is welcome to my shit for free.
          • jjkaczor3 hours ago
            First they will run it through some sort of analytics to sell the results to biomedical information-tracking companies for aggregate data:

            https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/the-wild-story-of-how-gut-...

            Next - they will take the resulting "output" physical mess and turn dump it into a methane fuel-generating waste-treatment plant.

            If that still doesn't make enough $$$, and your measured productivity metrics are not good enough, don't worry - if you also end-up living in one of the "techbro sponsored corporate feudal city-states" you can always help the company by being turned into "biodiesel":

            https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...

  • decimalenough9 hours ago
    Perfectly realistic except the ending: why would anybody pay humans to generate voiceovers in 2030s, when AI can already do the job?
    • mrtksn8 hours ago
      That's all organic artizan voiceover, not like the unhealthy garbage AI voiceover the lesser cool people use.
    • barryrandall7 hours ago
      Because enough people will pay $200 for a "premium" HDMI cable, that a market for premium HDMI cables exists.
    • someothherguyy8 hours ago
      likely boorishly contrived for this style of storytelling
  • nancyminusone6 hours ago
    The future is going to have a lot more speaker grilles with screwdriver stab marks in them.
  • Jotalea7 hours ago
    Reminds me of the movie "Demolition Man", where everything was assisted by AIs.
  • randunel9 hours ago
    Not enough ads and push to spend, I'm afraid.
  • keiferski9 hours ago
    I was hoping this was about FM-2030’s morning routine. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much information online about/if he did anything particularly unique.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

    • nemo16188 hours ago
      I wonder: if we get superintelligence before 2030, do you think we should revive him ASAP, or wait and do it in 2030?
      • keiferski3 hours ago
        I don’t think he was super interested in AI, more trans humanism and biology related things.
  • crims0n8 hours ago
    Neo-Luddism is going to be a popular term in the years to come.
  • explorigin9 hours ago
    I lost it at "shower buddy"
  • Yossarrian229 hours ago
    > Real coffee costs more than your coffee maker nowadays, so it has to suffice.

    That’s definitely the bad place

  • tkiolp45 hours ago
    No remote work?
  • nickdothutton9 hours ago
    Ballardian.
  • HenryBemis9 hours ago
    Did anyone else got a 15MM tingling feeling in the beginning of reading this or was it just me?
  • iamgopal9 hours ago
    H2G2
  • tacheiordache8 hours ago
    This is classified as satire but it's not much so, we're already halfway there.
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