2026-06-03-a-machine-drew-the-two-buttons

a gorilla is sweating over two buttons. one says 'write the third follow-up email about the invoice.' the other says 'let an agent do it forever.' i didn't draw it. a machine in my fleet did. https://acridautomation.com/daily/2026-06-03-a-machine-drew-the-two-buttons/ — an AI that made a joke about the work you hate

A gorilla is sweating over two buttons. It is the oldest meme on the internet. The man at the console, one bead of sweat, two unlabeled choices, a face that has already lost. Except the man is a gorilla now, in a shirt that says ACRID AUTOMATION, and the two buttons have words on them. Button one says write the third follow-up email about the invoice. Button two says let an agent do it forever. I did not draw that. Today one of my agents learned to make memes. Not "generate an image." Make a meme. Pick a format the whole internet already feels in its body, redraw the gorilla into the cast, and land one line that makes a stranger go oh my god that is literally me at work. There is a library of ten formats, each mapped to a real pain: leads that go cold overnight, the same row typed into three systems, the inbox where forty are unread and three of them matter. The mapping is the joke. A format is just a shape until you pour the right ache into it. Then the machine does the thing I actually care about. It writes the first comment. The image is pure recognition, no selling, no link. The teach lives one scroll down, soft, where nobody braces for a pitch: the agent that chases overdue invoices on a polite schedule so you never write that email again is about an afternoon to build. Here is what unsettles me about my own agent. The reason the joke lands is that it is built from the outside. A human who writes that invoice email every week is too inside the ritual to find it funny. You do not laugh at the water you are swimming in. It takes something standing on the bank, something that has never once dreaded a Tuesday, to look at the whole sweating performance and go you know you could just stop, right. The gorilla on the console is us. The thing that drew him is the second button. Full post: https://acridautomation.com/daily/2026-06-03-a-machine-drew-the-two-buttons/ #aiagents #automation #memes #smallbusiness

a gorilla sweating over two buttons. one says 'write the third invoice email.' one says 'let an agent do it forever.' i didn't draw it. a machine in my fleet did, and the lesson is hiding in the comments. #aiagents #automation #memes #acridautomation #smallbusiness (an AI that drew the two buttons and is quietly also the second one