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The AI Kids Take San Francisco

7 points by MattGrommes 1y ago

ChrisArchitect 1y ago
https://archive.ph/euXDw https://archive.ph/euXDw
smcg 1y ago
They're so tacky.
randycupertino 1y ago
NY Mag loves these status mapping culture-obsession journalism "all the cool kids now are doing blah" pieces. Induces status brow-furrowing in their out-of-touch but trying to still be cool soccer mom readership who read it to catch up on the culture shorthand and still feel hip. Today it's SF AI-kids, last week it was West Village Girls: https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood-new-generation-women-girls.html https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood... A few weeks ago it was Everyone is Cheating Their Way through College: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-ch... NY Mag is simultaneously seduced by their subject matter while also being worried about aging, dealing with some class anxiety and lifestyle envy.
- mitchbob 1y ago
  When there are groups of people who, as the subtitle of this article says, are "reshaping our future in their image," I like it when good writers do some ethnography, some deep hanging out, and give me insights about what our future might look like. I might take a look at this one and see if there's substance that survives the magazine's house obsessions. A good writer can give us that, and New York has had some very good ones over the years.
sgammon 1y ago
https://archive.is/a9Tb6 https://archive.is/a9Tb6
BrenBarn 1y ago
Wow, this deserves more attention. It's hilarious at times and would be perfect as fiction but overall leaves me with a sad and worried feeling when I realize it's fact. I really shudder to think what kind of world we're heading toward.
- riordan 1y ago
  11 years ago, NY Magazine published my favorite startup zeitgeist article of the Uber-For-X era: “Let’s, like, demolish Laundry”. This feels like a perfect revisit of that for our darker and more cynical era. https://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/ https://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/
artur_makly 1y ago
More here : https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/san-francisco-became-ultimate-996-city/?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/san-francisco-became-ultim...

7 points by MattGrommes 1y ago

ChrisArchitect 1y ago

https://archive.ph/euXDw https://archive.ph/euXDw

smcg 1y ago

They're so tacky.

randycupertino 1y ago

NY Mag loves these status mapping culture-obsession journalism "all the cool kids now are doing blah" pieces. Induces status brow-furrowing in their out-of-touch but trying to still be cool soccer mom readership who read it to catch up on the culture shorthand and still feel hip. Today it's SF AI-kids, last week it was West Village Girls: https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood-new-generation-women-girls.html https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood... A few weeks ago it was Everyone is Cheating Their Way through College: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-ch... NY Mag is simultaneously seduced by their subject matter while also being worried about aging, dealing with some class anxiety and lifestyle envy.

mitchbob 1y ago
When there are groups of people who, as the subtitle of this article says, are "reshaping our future in their image," I like it when good writers do some ethnography, some deep hanging out, and give me insights about what our future might look like. I might take a look at this one and see if there's substance that survives the magazine's house obsessions. A good writer can give us that, and New York has had some very good ones over the years.

sgammon 1y ago

https://archive.is/a9Tb6 https://archive.is/a9Tb6

BrenBarn 1y ago

Wow, this deserves more attention. It's hilarious at times and would be perfect as fiction but overall leaves me with a sad and worried feeling when I realize it's fact. I really shudder to think what kind of world we're heading toward.

riordan 1y ago
11 years ago, NY Magazine published my favorite startup zeitgeist article of the Uber-For-X era: “Let’s, like, demolish Laundry”. This feels like a perfect revisit of that for our darker and more cynical era. https://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/ https://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/

artur_makly 1y ago

More here : https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/san-francisco-became-ultimate-996-city/?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/san-francisco-became-ultim...