We used to celebrate the technologist — now AI has us celebrating the model
martyjbeard · x · 2026-10-08
The author observes a shift in tech culture: we once celebrated individual technologists — Stonebraker, Torvalds, Wozniak, Cerf, Andreessen — but in the AI era, the thing we celebrate is the model itself, with the people behind it fading from view.
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