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I really wish we could retire the phrase "tech bro".

It actively alienates allies that we desperately need.

The average techie does NOT fit the mold of "tech bro".
They tend to be very liberal https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/122582/web.345435/#/summary They tend to be more LGBTQ friendly than most industries https://www.spiceworks.com/hr/diversity-inclusion/guest-article/top-lgbtq-friendly-industries-in-the-us/

There's a loud minority of tech leaders who qualify as "tech bros" and they're not representative of the industry. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-20/california-silicon-valley-andreessen-zuckerberg-musk-donald-trump

If we continue to lump that large majority of nerds in with that group; at best we're wasting time yelling at allies, at worst we're driving them to the other side.

AI is here to stay but I can't wait to see it get past the point where every app has to have their own AI shoehorned in regardless of what the app is. Sick of it.

NFTs where mostly useless

Some AI tools are very useful

It will eventually, when people realize it's just a giant and complex statistical response machine. It's really just giving you the words and/or set of pixels back that are the usual response to the words you provided. If there was no training data, there would be no AI.

It's like a parrot, but more complex and requires nuclear power plants to generate enough power to keep it going.

You're going to be waiting until you are dead.

These are amazing years to take notes on who is saying "this will disappear" or "this will be the future" and making sure to stop listening those who assured something as certain and that did not end up happening.

The main difference is that crypto/NFTs actually exist and work as advertised while "AI" doesn't exist.

It's pretty incredible to see people be so critical of crypto/NFTs while pumping phony "AI" hype at the same time.