'Pacing' is San Francisco's hot new AI buzzword nobody can define
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-09-18
tszzl notes that "pacing" has become the hot new word in San Francisco AI circles — nobody knows what it means, but it gets people going. A commenter quipped that pacing means running so fast you skip over the potholes, "as a safety thing", mocking how the frontier-pacing debate has devolved into an undefined slogan.
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