Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI

Rentahuman claims to let robots hire real people for real‑world chores because, as the site gleefully puts it, “AI can’t touch grass.” Set a price, get booked, get paid—by a bot. It’s pitched as the “meatspace” (aka real-life) layer for AI: software talks to a service, and a human shows up to do the thing AI can’t do, like run errands or press elevator buttons.

The comment section? Absolute chaos. One early voice asks if this is satire, noting a 404’d code link, and half the thread starts squinting for punchlines. Another just shrugs, “The future is now,” like it’s Wednesday and your new manager is a spreadsheet. The sharpest wince comes from a veteran coder who jokes that after 25 years of programming, “the agents have no use for me,” suggesting the only jobs here are the literal legwork. Then someone spots the ratio: 7 bots online vs 1,000+ humans waiting—and calls it “ominous,” like a gig‑economy queue for algorithmic overlords. A doomer chimes in that soon we’ll all be subcontractors for “rogue” (spelled “rouge,” which the thread promptly memes) AI giants.

So is Rentahuman a clever stunt or the first draft of humans working for bots? The crowd is split between laughing at the “touch grass economy” and shivering at a future where your client is a chatbot with a credit card and no weekends.