February 19, 2026
Blade Runner vs Cheese Suit
AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Super-suit for humans or the unpaid intern replacing you
TLDR: Kasava says treat AI like a power suit that boosts workers, citing real exoskeletons that cut injuries and expand capability. Comments erupt: some imagine “Blade Runners” to police rogue AIs, others fear it’s training your replacement, while optimists call it a brain bicycle—high stakes, big laughs, real policy vibes.
The Kasava blog just declared AI (artificial intelligence) isn’t your new coworker—it’s your exoskeleton, the power suit that lets humans lift more, move faster, and get hurt less. Think Ford’s factory vests cutting injuries by over 80%, soldiers hauling heavy gear without wrecking their backs, and rehab patients literally walking again. The post’s big idea: AI should amplify people, not act like a moody robot employee. It even nods to viral demos like “OpenClaw,” but warns that autonomous “agents” without human oversight set us up for chaos. “The AI handles the scale. The human interprets the meaning.” That’s the vibe.
Cue the comments cage match. One camp went full sci‑fi: delichon wants a future “Blade Runner” job to shut down rogue AIs, sparking a safety vs. freedom dust‑up. Workplace doomers piled in—m_ke says AI is “the underpaid employee you’re training to replace you,” predicting anything done on a computer will be automated once the data’s recorded. Others leaned into the super-suit optimism, with xnx dubbing it “an electric bicycle for the mind,” while pavlov shot a flirty DM at Claude and blibble brought comic relief with a “cheese exoskeleton” meme. The result: half pep talk, half panic, fully entertaining Kasava blog.
Key Points
- •The article advocates framing AI as a human amplifier (“exoskeleton”) rather than an autonomous coworker.
- •Manufacturing data cited: Ford saw an 83% injury reduction using EksoVest across 15 plants; BMW’s Spartanburg plant reported 30–40% lower worker effort with Levitate vests.
- •German Bionic’s Cray X provides up to 66 lbs lift support; customers like BMW and IKEA report 25% fewer sick days.
- •Military exoskeletons cited: Sarcos Guardian XO Max (~20:1 strength amplification, up to 200-lb loads) and Lockheed Martin’s HULC (200-lb loads at ~7 mph, 10 mph bursts).
- •Research findings: 76% of spinal cord injury patients walked using powered exoskeletons; Stanford and Harvard prototypes cut running energy/metabolic costs by 15% and 5.4%, respectively.