[jcgrillo]

You've hit spot on something important here, that AI arrived at a time when the shine has worn off the tech. Google got evil, Twitter was eviscerated by a clown who likes to make nazi salutes, Facebook plumbed depths of enshittification previously unknown to science. The metaverse turned out to be hot air. Bitcoins did not in fact change anything, let alone everything. And now we have the same spoiled brats who did all that stuff and told all those lies trying to say that chatbots are going to "real soon now" be somehow the most valuable technology ever made.

All that, and the constant deluge of lies--coding agents will make you 10x as effective in six months, AGI is pretty much here, etc. When Jobs did his demos generally (maybe every time?) he had something to show. It wasn't some empty promise, it was real. I want that kind of tech, not the imaginary stuff.

[karakoram]

> AI arrived at a time when the shine has worn off the tech. Google got evil, Twitter was eviscerated by a clown who likes to make nazi salutes, Facebook plumbed depths of enshittification previously unknown to science.

Perhaps the most underrated point here. To add to this point, people think Gen Z love tech by default, they were first generation to make Facebook accounts as kids etc. but I actually believe they have grown up to be the most tech skeptic generation.

All those kids that made their Facebook accounts faking their age, deleted those accounts before actually turning 18.

Tech industry and tech founders are not seen as hip and cool anymore.