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Deepseek emerged, and the discussion craze lasted for half a month: from deepseek dominating the global application store to selling AI courses, using deepseek to calculate the horoscope, and using AI for the elderly Writing poems and letting AI imitate Lu Xun's sharp comments...

I smiled slightly, nothing was surprised.

Until I saw a post from Xiaohongshu, I was shocked:

A user took a video to teach everyone how to use AI to help write code.

A AI programming software Cursor is needed here. After entering the instructions, a C++ snake game will be completed.

Know programming and can use AI proficiently... Do you think this is a technology blogger engaged in programming, right?

Wrong! This "teacher" @刘生女剧女, who likes programming, is only in his 10s and is still a primary school student. Not only that, if you click on his Xiaohongshu homepage, we can also see him teach you how to use AI to improve the efficiency of memorizing words, recommend the algorithm books you have read, and even announce that you will be preparing to participate in the American programming competition - The Sovereign Olympics.

Yang Xiaohongshu Homepage, who likes programming

I was really shocked when I first came across this note. How could I get this kind of technology and geek in Xiaohongshu content? Is Xiaohongshu not the lifestyle community that can eat, drink and have fun?

The more I brushed, the more I realized that the content of primary school students playing with AI is not an isolated case. On Xiaohongshu, I actually saw a group of children who share AI content. They are often only about ten years old, but they can skillfully use AI and elaborate on terms that even adults find difficult to understand.

At this moment, the dividing line of the future has emerged.

Because, aren’t these children who play with AI the legendary AI natives? !

The movie "Artificial Intelligence" (2001)

AI Aboriginal People and the Future Divide

Why is the emergence of AI natives a sign of the boundary of the future?

Asking this question is not intentionally sensational. In fact, a few years ago, there had been a discussion about "AI Native generation/Gen AI" in the Silicon Valley circle that focused on the future and cutting-edge. You can check out the titles of these articles. Do they all have a sensation of science fiction? It seems like a new world is coming?

Meet AI Aboriginals

"AI Aboriginals" Generation Z is willing to stand at the forefront

An article about the characteristics of AI Aboriginals is well summarized Interesting, called "2025 marks the beginning of Generation Beta, the AI-native kids, says they have three major characteristics:

1. They were born after 2010.

2. They have been exposed to AI since childhood and are born to use it and can understand it.

3. AI is a part of their lives.

Please be sure to pay attention to the point here is birth time. Because from a historical perspective, every technological revolution will lead to the emergence of a watershed, causing a huge gap between the two generations. And these two generations always have huge differences in thinking and cognitive levels.

The huge intergenerational difference, the most recent case, is the outbreak of "Internet Aboriginals" that everyone has experienced personally but rarely studied in depth.

In the 1990s, the Internet was absolutely new to the public. Some old-school experts also questioned and sneered when the Internet first appeared. Not only did they fail to foresee the future, they also believed that the Internet had no commercial value except chatting and selling pornographic things.

Among these, there is an online bookstore that was questioned at the beginning stage, with reasons including but not limited to "the books sold online cannot be seen or touched, and the experience is very poor", "The online store does not have a physical store like a physical store. Living clerk service, etc., and this questioned bookstore is Amazon, which has a future turnover of more than US$380 billion. Most people at that time could not understand it at all. In the next few years, all Elementary and middle school students will be proficient in QQ. A group of teenagers who are not writers at all created online literature. A group of teenagers in online games have brought a thirty-year-old young man to the throne of the richest man in China. The richest man's name is Chen Tianqiao.

The early Internet native interactions - it is still in its infancy, and no one would imagine that this kind of chat would produce QQ and an Internet giant.

I still remember that when we were young, there was a class called "microcomputer class". The primary school students in class were seriously wearing shoe covers, lined up to enter the microcomputer room, sat straight, and learned to turn on, turn off, and operate under the teacher's arrangement. Dos system drawings, word document editing... Why do you need to wear shoe covers? Computers are a high-tech and must be respectful and dust-proof before they can be used!

This is called invalid learning, a performance created by people with outdated versions

But at the same time, another group of young people, the so-called Internet natives , they naturally regard the Internet as a part of their life. They are born to like watching "The Matrix", can quickly learn to chat with instant messaging software, understand the social structure and trading system of online games without a teacher, and download BT seeds...

As time goes by, the gap between the two generations is getting bigger and bigger. The "pre-Internet" generation has carried too many burdens and made all the judgments that are contrary, and it is difficult to understand the significance of "Internet Aboriginals" to the future.

They absolutely can't imagine that a group of young people who seem to be messing around every day, tinkering with codes, have no qualifications, and are not well-known, are actually holding the company in their hands.Connect with the tools of the future. The best of them will inevitably use "technical leverage" to create a large company with a market value of 10 billion and 100 billion US dollars in the future to shape the future trend.

For example, a typical example is Zuckerberg, who started writing programs in middle school and later created Facebook, and became a billionaire in his twenties.

Facebook is also a typical product that only the Internet generation will understand (Social Networks Stills)

Another typical case is Snapchat, the prototype of this application originated from Stanford University Several young people in the dormitory had the idea of ​​"burning after reading". Its process of rapid rise from zero to one, which has a lot of meaning of "garage entrepreneurship" for the Internet natives.

To this day, Internet natives are no longer new.

But the rapid rise of AI has to make people go back to the period when the Internet was just on its rise.

It is undeniable that the future is shifting from "Internet Aboriginals" to "AI Aboriginals". And these "future owners" will be stronger and have greater potential.

So, Silicon Valley tycoon, investment god, and digital currency godfather Balaji also made a bold prediction, the general idea is:

Zuckerberg, an indigenous Internet man, became a man in his twenties. Billionaire,

The AI ​​generation is likely to have teenage billionaires.

He means that these children who grew up with AI have definitely different ways of thinking, working, and even dealing with society than our generation. Two species.

Silicon Valley thinker: Balaji, whose book "Balagi Prophecy" focuses on analyzing how technology will shape our future

Make a less appropriate prediction. Back then, we were memorizing "The Memorial of the Trial" and playing "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" on the red and white machine. "AI Aboriginals" might use AI to build the Three Kingdoms game model; back then, we were worried about the boring interest class, but "AI Aboriginals" might not do it well. I am using the technology they are familiar with to make games, music, short films...

I don’t know how you will feel when you hear these? Anyway, I'm very excited.

The ten-year-old child plays with AI

What I am excited about is that the future is not a completely invisible "fog of war", but rather It's hidden in the details of the moment.

Although "Internet Aboriginals" are still growing, the communities they gather are definitely worthy of attention, because there is information about peeping into the future.

According to my observations, in the English field, "AI Aboriginals" are highly concentrated in one community - reddit. And what is emerging in China is Xiaohongshu.

The old-fashioned community reddit covers two-dimensional, conspiracy theories, popular culture, entertainment gossip, and numbersWord currency... There are all kinds of contents, and the user age span is extremely high. Currently in reddit, AI indigenous people are mostly active in technology sectors such as technology, learningmachinelearning, and Artificial Intelligence. The discussion is not very popular yet, the pure geek park.

What are they busy with? I guess many adults read it like reading a book of heaven.

For example, a doctoral student is going to start a business with his 16-year-old brother, intending to use a micro single-board computer developed by Raspberry Pi to create a robot with machine learning vision components. Recruiting partners.

This 14-year-old teenager is trying to use AI machine learning within a week to create a stock predictor with an accuracy rate of more than 40%.

I faintly smelled the money

While in China, the sharing of "AI Aboriginals" on Xiaohongshu looks more pragmatic and lifelike, and the discussion atmosphere is Very thick.

There are various discussions below the notes of Xiaohongshu AI Aboriginal people. For example, under the notes of the primary school students’ debate with AI, “Do you still need to learn programming with AI?”, everyone discussed whether AI will develop self-awareness?

These “AI natives”’s understanding of AI and use reflects a "sense of maturity" that is inconsistent with age (of course there is nothing strange about this).

For example, this child can not only analyze the advantages and disadvantages of OpenAI Sora, but also point out physical errors in AI images. And can hold video lectures and share your own insights.

Little Red Book ID: Tracy who loves tossing

This elementary school student teaches everyone how to use Crispe to customize private AI language teachers, "prompt word frame format", " Terms such as human-machine collaboration framework" come out.

Professional knowledge even makes adults look question-marked.

Xiaohongshu ID: Xiaotuantuan Big Thoughts

This elementary school student teaches: how to use deepseek+natralReader to do homework, and even teaches how to use AI tools to facilitate listening to English podcasts.

Xiaohongshu ID: EMMA mother sandra

There are many similar examples in Xiaohongshu. If you are interested, you can find them yourself.

These discussions and sharing may still be in the undercurrent stage and belong to the fire of stars.

But according to the development rhythm of the previous node - "Internet Aboriginals", I always feel that the current "AI Aboriginals" are bursting out in a concentrated manner, and a few representatives have been recorded in history, and the whole story has been produced. There are a few big projects that have shaken everyone's perception, and it's really not far away.

The number one player that defines the future”, the "Zuckerberg" in the AI ​​era, is likely to appear in the near future.

The undercurrents in the future have already appeared

So, maybe in the near future, similar notes will appear on Xiaohongshu: "I, 14 years old." , I have started an AI game project, prepared to raise 10 million yuan, and recruit friends of the same age! ”

If this situation really happens, I won’t be surprised. Because AI indigenous people have emerged in Xiaohongshu, the "futuristic wild men" who dare to think and do may soon appear in Xiaohongshu.

So someone wants to ask, shouldn’t the so-called “AI natives” be born in a more vertical technology community? How did it appear on Xiaohongshu?

This may be primarily related to the diversity of the community. It is very similar to reddit. As a UGC community, the crowds on Xiaohongshu are extremely wide, and the independent individuals in the community are real and diverse. The content generated is no longer limited to lifestyle, from cutting-edge technology to daily life, from stock trading to UFO, from independent games, to niche music, everything is available.

This is like the fact that an ecosystem cannot be composed of only a single ethnic group. Only with species diversity can it maintain its most fundamental vitality. The prosperity of the UGC community also requires the collision of thoughts, feelings and experiences of different individuals.

From the influx of foreigners into the comment area to the emergence of diversified gameplay of hardcore AI on Xiaohongshu, it is not difficult to find that no matter what your country is, how many Niche hobbies, mastering many techniques that cannot be understood, or even having a marginal, remote and cutting-edge knowledge, can always be cultivated and sprouted in this highly inclusive community, and even extend new creations.

The Internet and AI natives have a distinctive feature, that is, they will not have any fear of the Internet and AI, but will hug them quickly.

And I also saw a specific manifestation on the Xiaohongshu platform: a group of children discussing AI content is like sharing eating hamburgers, playing games, and buying clothes, and there is no difference. AI is a part of their lives for AI natives. It is not a content narrative of a single discourse system, nor is it a small group of people who control discourse hegemony.

You must not think that all this is just an intracranial orgasm and future fantasy. After all, many of the major projects carried out by "Internet Aboriginals" began with small observations on life and small ideas related to life, which looked quite inconspicuous.

And our future is likely to be born in the daily life shared by AI indigenous people.