Oh, Joy. Another Tech Conference.

Right, so apparently some people are still throwing money at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco next September. They’ve added a few more names to the “Builders Stage” agenda – because *that’s* what the world needs: more self-congratulatory bullshit from venture capitalists and startup founders who think they’re changing the world when they’re mostly just rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.

Specifically, they’ve got folks from RunwayML (AI video, surprise!), Weights & Biases (more AI… *sigh*), Imbue (yet MORE AI – are you seeing a pattern here?), and some other companies I frankly can’t be bothered to remember. There’s also a couple of hardware types thrown in for good measure, probably promising the next “revolutionary” gadget that will inevitably fail spectacularly.

The whole thing is about “building” apparently. Building what? More hype? More unsustainable business models? I don’t know and frankly, I don’t *care*. They’re talking about AI safety (because they finally realized it might be a problem after all), scaling issues (shocking!), and the usual VC drivel about “innovation.”

Look, it’s a tech conference. Expect pitches, expect buzzwords, expect inflated valuations, and expect to leave feeling emptier than your wallet. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Seriously, the amount of AI “innovation” being touted is just… exhausting. It’s like everyone suddenly decided they were a machine learning expert after installing ChatGPT.

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Speaking of wasted time, I once had to debug a routing issue caused by someone who thought “traceroute” was a type of tea. *Tea*. That’s the level of competence we’re dealing with in this industry. And now they want to tell us how to build the future? Get real.

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