Engineer on leaving the Bay Area: AI made me feel I knew people before meeting them
vaibhavbetter · x · 2026-10-23
Oliver Barnum shares one reason he left the Bay Area: he began to feel he "knew people before he knew them" — with everyone's takes and lives fully pre-exposed via social media and AI mediation, meeting strangers lost its fun. vaibhavbetter calls it the world's best articulation of this reality.
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