The Sane Asylum: Inside Silicon Valley's AI-Era Collective Breakdown
DevinLewtan · x · 2026-10-28
Brie Wolfson's Colossus essay paints Silicon Valley's collective malaise in the AI era: frontier-lab employees skipping weddings and parenthood, told not to wear company swag in public for security reasons; founders haunted by offers they declined worth $100M; pre-AI startup founders feeling 30% YoY growth like death. The driving belief: knowledge workers may be jobless in two years, so mark your mark and money now. "Too many of my friends are spiraling. I don't know how we're supposed to live and work like this."
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