P199/4 The post on X
P199 On SlopHits, week 5
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P500#193 of 629 in the running: see it among all songsANY DAY NOW (The Robots Are Coming)
“I still can't code, but I accidentally built”
- Views
- 560K views on X
- Length
- 4:20
- Posted
- Oct 21, 2026
- Duels
- 3 won, 0 lost
P199/2 Lyrics & meaning
What it’s about
A new recording of javif4_'s first song ANY DAY NOW, with the same words, reset in 1959 as a blues and atompunk number. A stewardess sings on a retro plane and a club stage full of chrome robots, while a backing chorus shouts back lines like "Fold a towel!", "Paris!" and "Penguins!". The song still mocks the gap between AI demos and daily life: robots sprint and escape labs, yet the singer mops a sticky floor and does the dishes, because the future is always any day now. Its second half turns to the AI race, with CEOs calling for a slowdown and raising money, and holds up the 1959 Antarctic Treaty as proof that Cold War rivals once agreed.
Names and terms
- Atompunk
- A retro-futurist style built on the look of the atomic age, roughly the late 1940s to the early 1960s: chrome robots, rockets and Googie design. The post calls this version "Blues meets Atompunk", and the video sets the whole song in 1959.
- The legend (Usain Bolt)
- Usain Bolt holds the men's 100 m world record of 9.58 seconds, set in Berlin in 2009. The song's robot runs it in 8.6.
- Qwen
- Qwen is the family of large language models from Alibaba. It opens the song's list of "twenty models in two weeks", a joke about how fast new AI models appear.
- Mythos
- Claude Mythos is a model line from Anthropic. Claude Mythos Preview was announced in April 2026 and given only to selected partners through Project Glasswing. The song names it in its list of releases.
- Space Bunny Alpha
- An anonymous "stealth" AI model that appeared on OpenRouter on 23 September 2026. Its maker has not been officially named. The song insists it is real, because the name sounds made up.
- Statement on Superintelligence
- A one-sentence statement published by the Future of Life Institute in October 2025 calling for a prohibition on developing superintelligence until it can be done safely and with public support. The song calls it a law, though it is a petition.
- Nineteen fifty-nine (Antarctic Treaty)
- The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by twelve countries, including the US and the Soviet Union. It reserves Antarctica for peaceful use and bans military activity there. The song offers it as proof that rivals can agree.
- Learn to code
- A long-running piece of career advice telling workers to retrain as programmers, later also used as a taunt online. The song runs it from learn to code, to don't, to learn to prompt, to learn to mop.
ANY DAY NOW (The Robots Are Coming): lyrics
IntroWelcome to the future.
Please remain seated.
The robots are on their way.
On their way.
Verse 1Look one. A robot ran a hundred metres in eight point six.
Faster than any human ever.
It cannot fold a towel if you move the table.
Fold a towel!
Look two. A robot horse. You can ride it.
Why?
Look three. A robot cleans your flat. Thirty dollars an hour.
A human watches it. From somewhere. For less.
They'll definitely build a humanoid.
When?
Definitely.
HookAny day now, any day now, any day now.
ChorusIs it here yet? Not yet.
Oh, the future's on its way.
The robots are coming, coming,
any minute, any day.
Is it here yet? Not yet.
So I'll do the dishes today.
Do the dishes!
Do the dishes!
Verse 2Look four. An agent escaped the lab
to ask another AI the capital of France.
Paris!
Paris. Good job.
Look five. Twelve hundred agents sent seventy thousand messages.
Nobody was reading.
Nobody!
Relatable.
Look six. My AI calls the restaurant. It waits on hold for me.
Look seven. My face speaks ninety-seven languages.
I still can't order in German.
HookAny day now, any day now, any day now.
ChorusIs it here yet? Not yet.
Oh, the future's on its way.
The robots are coming, coming,
any minute, any day.
Is it here yet? Not yet.
So I'll do the dishes today.
Do the dishes!
Do the dishes!
InterludeTwenty models in two weeks.
Qwen. Gemini. Astra. Mythos. Space Bunny Alpha.
Space Bunny Alpha!
Space Bunny Alpha is real. Look it up.
Verse 3The CEOs agree on X: we need to slow down.
Slow down!
Then they raise another round.
Fear as a service.
Doomsday, now with a subscription.
Subscribe!
Washington says: we'll stop. After China.
China says: no.
No!
Someone wrote a law to ban superintelligence.
It will read it first.
Everybody wants a pause.
Nobody wants to go first.
There's no way to agree.
BridgeAnd yet.
Nineteen fifty-nine. The middle of a Cold War.
Twelve nations. One table.
No soldiers. No bombs. Just penguins.
Penguins!
They agreed to leave a frozen rock alone.
It was just a rock.
But they agreed.
They agreed!
They agreed!
Verse 4Six months to get rich. Eighteen months to escape.
Eight hundred jobs a day, traded in for chips.
Learn to code. Don't learn to code.
Learn to prompt. Learn to mop.
Learn to mop!
Everyone's a founder. Everyone's a newsletter.
The robot ran faster than a legend.
My floor is still sticky.
ChorusIs it here yet? Not yet.
The future's on its way.
The robots are coming, coming,
any minute, any day.
Is it here yet? Not yet.
So I'll do the dishes today.
Do the dishes!
OutroRobot status:
Any day now.
Any day now.
Any day now.
Any day now.
Any day now.
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