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12 Jul 2026 Lenny's Podcast How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)
“The prophecy was given to the fools, so I'm not going to try and be a prophet. But yes, I doubt it's going to get more normal and normalized statistically than this.”
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- Noam Segal
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- 12 Jul 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Yeah, man. And I think you used this quote earlier that, "This is the most normal it's ever going to be." I don't know. The prophecy was given to the fools, so I'm not going to try and be a prophet. But yes, I doubt it's going to get more normal and normalized statistically than this. So we'll wait and see, I guess. Yeah. If we zoom out, we're living through history right now, the amount of change. And this is unprecedented. The industrial revolution's always the metaphor people use, which is accurate, maybe crazy or maybe not, but that's the interesting part. What an interesting time to be living through. Elon had this really interesting way of describing it, "We're definitely living in a simulation if we are alive right now when we're about to start building data centers in space, and AIs are going to be as smart as human brains." What are the chances you are alive at that moment? Which is probably, okay, maybe some higher intelligence is simulating the most interesting time in history. I don't know if that's good or bad, but-…
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