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Re: Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco

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Post by ramesh31 »

smith7018 wrote: post #10
ramesh31 wrote: post #5

I think the one thing we can all agree on is that we're actually excited about something in tech again. Like for real, not in the "oh thats interesting now how can we make money" kind of way. It's been a long time, well over a decade since that's happened. The energy of SF in the late 2000s with the mobile boom was electric. Would be wonderful to experience that again.

You didn't feel it two years ago when crypto and Web3 were going to fundamentally change everything? /s (sorta..)

> You didn't feel it two years ago when crypto and Web3 were going to fundamentally change everything?

That was the charlatan crap that took over in the last 10 years. Once upon a time, people actually cared about tech for it's own sake, and spent time geeking out and having meetups for the fun of it. Not everything was a "networking opportunity" to grift into a 6 figure PM role. I'd say 2014ish was about the time those things started becoming >50% nontechnicals and recruiters, which was about the same time that every last drop of real culture in that city made an exodus to the east bay.

Re: Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco

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Post by xxpor »

ramesh31 wrote: post #11
smith7018 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You didn't feel it two years ago when crypto and Web3 were going to fundamentally change everything? /s (sorta..)

> You didn't feel it two years ago when crypto and Web3 were going to fundamentally change everything? That was the charlatan crap that took over in the last 10 years. Once upon a time, people actually cared about tech for it's own sake, and spent time geeking out and having meetups for the fun of it. Not everything was a "networking opportunity" to grift into a 6 figure PM role. I'd say 2014ish was about the time th…

And this is why Seattle > SF for working on actual tech.

Re: Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco

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Post by gumballindie »

ramesh31 wrote: post #5

I think the one thing we can all agree on is that we're actually excited about something in tech again. Like for real, not in the "oh thats interesting now how can we make money" kind of way. It's been a long time, well over a decade since that's happened. The energy of SF in the late 2000s with the mobile boom was electric. Would be wonderful to experience that again.

Yeah but this time the tech is based on stealing people's intellectual property. Hopefully this theft ends soon.

Re: Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco

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Post by Solvency »

datadrivenangel wrote: post #7

https://archive.ph/SPkAx Summary: Meetups, especially AI meetups, are back in SF. Love to see it, but we're also seeing the same thing happen here in DC with the meetups I run, so it's not especially newsworthy?

Cool, so there are AI meetups, which are finite sessions inside random cafes and businesses. But what about literally everything outside those meetups, like the horrifying human experience involved in the commute/walk/bike to and from said meetups?

Re: Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco

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Post by dingnuts »

ramesh31 wrote: post #11
smith7018 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You didn't feel it two years ago when crypto and Web3 were going to fundamentally change everything? /s (sorta..)

> You didn't feel it two years ago when crypto and Web3 were going to fundamentally change everything? That was the charlatan crap that took over in the last 10 years. Once upon a time, people actually cared about tech for it's own sake, and spent time geeking out and having meetups for the fun of it. Not everything was a "networking opportunity" to grift into a 6 figure PM role. I'd say 2014ish was about the time th…

>to grift into a 6 figure PM role

"six figures" in SF is practically poverty, and thanks to inflation it's hardly even "making it" in flyover country nowadays. wow, some grift, lol.

in a world where an average cashier makes $40k/yr, $100k isn't going to be the milestone it once was

Re: Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco

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Post by smith7018 »

ramesh31 wrote: post #11
smith7018 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You didn't feel it two years ago when crypto and Web3 were going to fundamentally change everything? /s (sorta..)

> You didn't feel it two years ago when crypto and Web3 were going to fundamentally change everything? That was the charlatan crap that took over in the last 10 years. Once upon a time, people actually cared about tech for it's own sake, and spent time geeking out and having meetups for the fun of it. Not everything was a "networking opportunity" to grift into a 6 figure PM role. I'd say 2014ish was about the time th…

Unfortunately, the same Crypto grifters have fully transitioned into AI thought leaders. We're going to have the same get-rich-quick schemes except this time it'll be VC money going to an extremely novel idea built on top of an OpenAI API instead of virtual real estate or hideous JPEGs of apes.

Re: Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco

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Post by datadrivenangel »

Solvency wrote: post #15
datadrivenangel wrote: post #7

https://archive.ph/SPkAx Summary: Meetups, especially AI meetups, are back in SF. Love to see it, but we're also seeing the same thing happen here in DC with the meetups I run, so it's not especially newsworthy?

Cool, so there are AI meetups, which are finite sessions inside random cafes and businesses. But what about literally everything outside those meetups, like the horrifying human experience involved in the commute/walk/bike to and from said meetups?

The article also mentions a few AI companies which now employ a few dozen people and have signed a handful of leases in SF?

So yeah, not much.

Re: Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco

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Post by ben_jones »

Solvency wrote: post #15
datadrivenangel wrote: post #7

https://archive.ph/SPkAx Summary: Meetups, especially AI meetups, are back in SF. Love to see it, but we're also seeing the same thing happen here in DC with the meetups I run, so it's not especially newsworthy?

Cool, so there are AI meetups, which are finite sessions inside random cafes and businesses. But what about literally everything outside those meetups, like the horrifying human experience involved in the commute/walk/bike to and from said meetups?

A horrifying human experience is living in a war zone. It’s not having to move to a different bart car or endure a pan handler requesting money.
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