AI insiders are a rounding error: watch out for SF bubble mentality
HankYeomans · x · 2026-10-04
The author argues you can be pro-AI while recognizing that people in the space today are a rounding error of the population. He finds comments like "this is insane, why haven't they done this yet?" to be classic San Francisco bubble mentality, and urges understanding why people outside the bubble act as they do and which problems they actually care to fix.
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