I recently made a new Instagram account for following only tech-related content—AI news, game development, and similar topics.
I quickly noticed that the posts being pushed toward me were the generic ones that just work. The algorithm doesn't know enough about what I actually enjoy yet, so it defaults to engagement bait.
Posts like:
"Maturity is when you realize Tony Stark was a vibe coder with unlimited API."
These reels generate millions of views, and people in the comments genuinely relate to them. Others suggest things like:
- "Just self-host an LLM."
- "Fable 5 is basically JARVIS."
- "We're all becoming Tony Stark."
My Brain Starts Rotting Within Seconds seeing content like this.
People are so brainwashed, and content like this makes my brain rot within a second of watching it.
It's like a whitewashing of your brain, creating this illusionary bubble where you start believing:
"You are Tony Stark."
Let me tell you the truth:
YOU AREN'T.
Having unlimited intelligence—or unlimited API credits—doesn't mean you can build a suit that flies around and launches missiles.
Tony Stark was able to build the suit in a cave because the genius was already present.
His genius created JARVIS.
JARVIS didn't create Tony Stark.
That distinction is incredibly important, yet social media seems to ignore it entirely.
Most of the AI Hype posts is just a giant circle jerk.
The AI content circulating today is mostly a hype train, and people love jumping on it because they're ignorant of a simple truth:
Without a genuinely capable and intelligent person behind it, an LLM is just an idle box sitting on a hard drive.
Stop Trying to Become Someone Else
YOU ARE NOT TONY STARK.
STOP TRYING TO BE SOMEONE YOU ARE TOLD TO BE.
Just because you have something like JARVIS doesn't mean you can suddenly create an Arc Reactor that fits inside your chest.
Real intelligence isn't predictable the way an LLM is.
Real intelligence is messy.
It connects ideas that don't obviously belong together. It questions assumptions. It comes from years of experience, failure, curiosity, and wisdom.
That's still where humans have the advantage.
Another frustration I must reflect upon:
Why people keep Building "JARVIS Clones"? It was cool at the start but now it's just brain rot (and slop).
They stitch together multiple APIs, add a TTS engine, write a system prompt that says:
"Greet me with 'Hello Sir.'"
...and call it a day.
Technically, it's a fun project.
But practically?
It solves almost nothing.
Most of these assistants burn through AI credits performing tasks that would've been faster and cheaper through plain text.
Sometimes we're so focused on making something look like science fiction that we forget to ask whether it's actually useful.
Not just Instagram, people post things that are so generic like "AGI is here" on a weekly basis (it's not here).
This is just a hype bubble and people LOVE to be inside them. Most people are just thinking what's been told to them by the HYPE creators who want's you to believe in AI because... money of course (Dario & Jensen Huang enters the chat).
The uncomfortable part is that the hype isn't even lying outright — it's just skipping steps. "AI can write your code" is technically true and also missing the sentence that follows: if you already know how to read the code it writes. "AI can be your JARVIS" is technically true too, if you were already the kind of person capable of building a JARVIS without it. The tool doesn't add the missing ingredient. It amplifies whatever was already there — and for most people posting these reels, what was already there was curiosity, not capability.
That's fine, by the way, Curiosity is a fine place to start. The problem isn't wanting to build things — it's mistaking the want for the wisdom, and then broadcasting that confusion to millions of people who walk away thinking the gap between them and a functioning system is a system prompt and a TTS wrapper.
It isn't. It never was.
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