'De-coupling from the Silicon Valley grindset': dev pushes back on speed worship
floguo · x · 2026-09-24
Developer ryolu published a reflective thread pushing back on Silicon Valley's worship of efficiency, productivity and speed — shipping faster, managing more agents, compressing every loop — asking what endless production is for if there's no time left to think deeply. She frames AI as a new canvas for making strange, personal, impossible things: tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals. The quote-tweet quips that two months in China already de-coupled him from the grindset.
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