He’s the Engineer Who Fights Bots for a Living. When He Panics, We Should Pay Attention. Press enter or click to view image in full size Source: X Business 📬 This article was first published on The Nov Tech newsletter 🔗 Subscribe for exclusive analysis. Medium non-members can read over there for free. I don’t scare easily about technology. I’ve watched enough AI hype cycles collapse into nothing to have developed a reasonably healthy skepticism reflex. So when I read the post that Nikita Bier , Head of Product at X, dropped a few months ago — eleven lines that have since been seen millions of times — my first instinct was to scroll past it. Then I read it again. “Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam and automation will be so flooded that they will no longer be usable in any functional sense: iMessage, phone calls, Gmail. And we will have no way to stop it.” This is not a tech YouTuber yelling into a camera from a darkened room.…