A short story nails SF's AI elite: 'the Yuan court of modern San Francisco'
round · x · 2026-09-11
A reader recommends a satirical short story about the San Francisco AI scene as 'the best short story I read this year', noting most tech satire argues with strawmen while this one captures the transactional, clueless, sleazy yet intoxicating atmosphere of SF today.
The quoted praise describes it as 'the Yuan court of modern San Francisco' — an elite inner circle of overwhelmingly male and Asian American AI researchers, engineers and founders on whom the future of American capitalism seems to hinge.
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