Ashlee Vance: San Francisco's best CS engineers tend to come from Canada
kyliebytes · x · 2026-10-23
Ashlee Vance quips that the best computer science engineers in San Francisco tend to come from Canada, sharing a video from his team's trip to the place "where vampires hang out" — a nod to the Canadian winter. Light industry anecdote about AI talent flows.
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