I commuted to work one morning last week as usual when I opened my phone and found card video platforms flooded with positions about an AI product called Manus. From Chatgpt to Deepseek And now ManusAI has evolved in just one year from a “consultant” who answers questions to an “intelligent colleague” who is able to replace people in the performance of complex tasks. As a mother of two 6-year-olds, I felt for the first time that the world my children will face can be completely outside my understanding.
Last year, my programmer husband and I discussed about “learning to code” would still be useful for our child. Back then, AI was limited to “answering questions.” But today, manus decomers can resume files, analyze warehouse data, plan travel plans, and even generate comprehensive analytical reporting tasks reserved for workers on white collars, data analysts and administrative assistants. Now AI achieves in minutes what people once took hours or days to complete.
At Xianyu, China’s used retail platform owned by Taobao, the manus invitation codes are forwarded for up to RMB 90,000. Behind this madness lies a widespread panic over “AI replacing human labor.” A technical blogger noted: “Manus is like an intern an intern. It not only understands instructions, but also uses independent tools to perform tasks. “This made me realize that if my child begins to learn” standardized skills “as data entry or basic document processing now, these jobs can disappear when they enter the workforce.
My anxiety stems from redefining educational goals. I tilted through my child’s kindergarten reading plan: phonetics, math, literacy, classical poetry … These were once considered “basic” during my school days, but their relevance is admitted to the AI era. What stunned me the most about the script was its capacity for “autonomous learning” and “cross-domain cooperation.” For example, it can scrape property data, analyze the neighborhood’s security measurements and even build interactive sites to present results – tasks that no longer require isolated skills, but rather the ability to deconstruct problems, gearing tools and perform creatively.
Even I, a coding beginner, began to wonder: Could I use the script one day to build a CRM system that is perfectly tailored to my business needs? When Deepseek first showed up, my husband dismissed this idea, but now he says, “Maybe it’s actually possible!”
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Photos: Siyu He, Manus