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I passed a very nice hotel downtown last week and watched a man sweep the sidewalk. Not a mess, just a few leaves and a scrap of paper. He…

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I passed a very nice hotel downtown last week and watched a man sweep the sidewalk. Not a mess, just a few leaves and a scrap of paper. He was doing a careful job. And I stood there thinking: why is a person still doing this in 2026? Here is the whole system, and none of it is science fiction. A camera mounted high, watching the entrance, that knows what clean looks like. A wrapper blows in, it marks the spot and sends a small robot to grab it. At night, the fleet sweeps and polishes the whole entrance. The lobby cleans itself. Nobody sweeps that sidewalk again. Every piece already ships. We are not waiting on a breakthrough. We are waiting on someone to bolt the pieces together and for the price to drop below what that sidewalk costs in wages. The real AI opportunities do not look like a moonshot. They look like a broom. Why Is Anyone Still Sweeping the Sidewalk? https://bry.net/blog/why-is-anyone-still-sweeping-the-sidewalk