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by deadbabe 2 days ago
Needs to be a post mortem on how this was allowed to happen.
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Gauntlet AI was a mask of BloomTech initially at least.[1] BloomTech was a mask of Lambda School. Y Combinator funded Lambda School. And Paul Graham admired Austen Allred's persistence to scam people.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42761972

[2] https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2019770359830949961

The sycophancy in the replies to Graham gives me second-hand embarrassment. I haven't used Twitter since the mid naughties, but I see that startup culture of ingratiating yourself to whomever is successful in the space is still alive and well.
It's been happening for some time now. I saw this pop up over 6 months ago. After searching I can find some dating back at least a year.
Even more reason for post-mortem.