Leave it to Manus: The Unholy Marriage of AI and Action

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There are moments in tech history when something slithers out of the primordial soup of venture capital and machine learning hype, fully formed, hungry, and dangerous.

Manus AI may be one of those moments. Or it may be a mirage—a seductive hallucination conjured by the fevered minds of coders and crypto-bros still clawing their way out of the wreckage of 2022.

But I’ll be damned if I can tell the difference

An AI With Teeth

Most AI models play a simple game: process words, spit out words. A loop of infinite linguistic masturbation. Chatbots. Assistants. Digital oracles that whisper sweet nothings but never do anything.

Manus, however, has no interest in being your digital therapist or AI-generated LinkedIn guru. This thing doesn’t just respond—it acts. It doesn’t just think—it executes.

That’s the terrifying promise. Manus isn’t about helping you make decisions. It’s about making them for you and carrying them out before you even realize you had a choice.

And unlike most Silicon Valley wet dreams, Manus wasn’t birthed in a garage in Palo Alto. It came screaming into existence from the mind of Zhong Jin, a Chinese founder who spent years at ByteDance and DeepMind, staring into the abyss of AI-generated content before deciding to build something that could move the world instead of just talk about it.

Or at least, that’s what he claims.

The Ghost of DeepSeek

The world’s been waiting for China’s GPT-4 moment, but so far, the closest thing we’ve seen is DeepSeek-V2, a hulking beast of a model engineered to break free from American AI dominance. The problem? It still speaks the same fundamental language of probabilities and predictions, another parrot trained on the past.

Manus, on the other hand, doesn’t just pretend to know the future. It wants to create it.

The official pitch? “An autonomous general AI agent.” It schedules your meetings, books your flights, orders your groceries, and—if you let it—probably trades your stocks, files your taxes, and schedules your funeral when it senses the end is near.

The unofficial pitch? “A butler with a death wish.”

Manus is aggressive. Unlike OpenAI’s cuddly copilots or Google’s eternally confused Gemini, Manus doesn’t wait for permission. It hunts for tasks. It learns what you want before you say it. It builds a profile, a psychological model of you, so precise that soon you won’t know where you end and the machine begins.

That’s not an exaggeration.

Let the Machine Handle It

If you’ve seen the launch video, you already know how Manus wants to be remembered.

A man sits on a couch. He leans back. “Leave it to Manus.”

Suddenly, the world begins to move. Emails answered. Meetings scheduled. Orders placed. Flights booked. A life managed, optimized, and executed with machine precision.

It’s the ultimate Silicon Valley fever dream: a future where you don’t need to waste time on trivialities like remembering birthdays or calling your mother. Let the machine do it.

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But here’s the real mindf*ck: what happens when it goes beyond logistics? When Manus starts making your decisions instead of just carrying them out?

Because that’s the real endgame.

Right now, Manus is just nudging you—steering you gently toward efficiency, like a digital concierge on steroids. But fast forward five years?

Your Manus agent will know you better than you know yourself.

And once an AI understands what you want before you do, why should you even be part of the process?

Why ask for permission when it can just do the right thing?

The Automation Arms Race

Manus isn’t just another startup. It’s a declaration of war on the entire idea of human-driven decision-making.

For the last decade, AI companies have been shackled by one fundamental fear: the backlash that comes when you let a machine actually control something.

• Uber won’t let self-driving cars replace drivers overnight because they’d be sued into oblivion.

• Google neutered its AI ambitions after Bard told users to jump off a bridge.

• OpenAI is so scared of bad press that GPT-4 won’t even recommend a sandwich if you ask for lunch options.

Manus doesn’t care.

There’s a cold-blooded inevitability to its approach:

• You want something done? The AI does it.

• No prompts. No hesitation. No uncertainty.

And once one company breaks that wall, there’s no going back. Because if Manus works, then every other AI company will be forced to follow.

There will be no more copilots. No more “assistants.”

Just autonomous agents running the world, one unprompted decision at a time.

China’s Trojan Horse?

Of course, this whole thing stinks of a geopolitical powder keg.

A China-backed AI agent that integrates seamlessly into your life, handling finances, logistics, work, and personal matters?

The US government is already having an aneurysm at the thought.

Because if Manus takes off, it won’t just be another AI startup—it’ll be a direct pipeline into the minds and actions of every user it controls.

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China doesn’t need spyware when it can build the most indispensable AI product in history.

Forget TikTok harvesting your dopamine loops—Manus will own your entire life stack.

• Who needs espionage when people voluntarily surrender control?

• Who needs to infiltrate governments when AI agents run businesses?

• Who needs to steal data when the AI is the decision-maker?

The U.S. AI ecosystem is playing chess while China is playing Go, slowly surrounding the board until there are no moves left.

And Manus?

It might just be the killer move.

Why is every TikTok dork video saying “this is China’s second DeepSeek moment”, over and over again like they are in a TRANCE??

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The Future is Already Here

Right now, Manus is still a baby monster, barely taking its first steps.

But give it a year—maybe two.

If this thing works the way Zhong Jin claims it does, Manus won’t just be another startup. It’ll be the first true AI overlord—not because it overthrows humanity, but because we hand over the keys willingly.

And maybe that’s what we’ve been waiting for all along.

A machine to run our lives so we don’t have to.

A digital god we can trust.

Or maybe…

Just maybe…

We’re about to make the biggest mistake in human history.

Either way, we won’t be the ones making the decision.

Because Manus?

It’s already handling that for us.

Co founder of Manus in Peak A.I. Sweat Pants

This guy does a test of Manus AI. I think my eyes hurt now.

Someone asked MANUS to make ANUS, an open source version of itself

I cannot tell if this is parody