SF AI culture critique goes viral: everyone thinks their app matters most and nobody sleeps
paw_lean · x · 2026-09-07
A widely shared outsider's take on San Francisco's AI scene: people care about productivity and building something bigger than themselves, but much of it is "impressively useless" — everyone thinks their AI app is the most important in the world, no one has enough friends or sleep, and much of the status-chasing amounts to nothing. The author is still grateful to be there for her startup-marketing career.
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