AI Analogies

Analogies are powerful learning/thinking devices that shape popular opinion. I’m attempting to collect the ones that pertain to the AI phenomenon that started sweeping the world about March 2024 that particularly tickled me. #

This list is in chronological order. #

1. Ai is like plastic (Sohom) #
2. Cursor proponents as drug addicts (https://read.readwise.io/filter/has%3Ahighlights%20AND%20last_opened__gt%3A%221%20week%20ago%22/read/01jzqtw14thk8jtcm62pyfexwt) #
3. Chatbot users as psychic marks (https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/) #
4. Ai is a microwave
   https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/ #
5. Ai is blue food coloring
   https://blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/ #
6. AI has become the Ozempic of the corporate world
   https://www.profgalloway.com/the-end-of-the-blockbuster/ #