What Bryan Cantrill thinks about robotics

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

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1. 13 Sept 2026

   Our readingRobots do not currently possess the capability to act in ways that justify extinction fears on a consistent time horizon.

   Their wordsThose who are resolute in their fear like to gloss over these bits ("robots will do this!"), but to do so is to ignore the physical reality that robots cannot do this today - and do not seem to be doing so on a time horizon consistent with these extinction fears.

   ↗The contagion of fearbcantrill.dtrace.org 2nd of 3 in this piece