AI veterans get nostalgic: missing the hacker-house era before the mercenaries arrived
vboykis · x · 2026-09-11
A nostalgic thread by qiqing, amplified by Vicki Boykis and other AI community veterans, struck a collective chord:
- "Remember when we were young, unpolished nerds, and the mercenaries hadn't shown up yet — when all that mattered was making the world better, we mocked social mobile local apps, and no one thought the world was going to end?"
- It recalls hacker houses, fierce JavaScript framework debates, and the singularity always being 15-20 years away.
- dctanner chimed in: missing "the human craft of the app, the human writing, the technical debates."
A representative snapshot of shifting AI-industry culture and sentiment.
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