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The case for San Francisco's 2022 startup scene over its 2026 AI boom
A poster doubts SF's capital-rich AI scene will produce many more startups like Cursor or Midjourney.
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A September 26 post argues that San Francisco was more interesting in 2022, when people who had stayed through COVID were starting what the writer calls today's major startups. The writer says SF now feels like a consensus tech hub again. They find frontier AI progress staggering but doubt the money and comfort surrounding it will foster many more startups like Cursor or Midjourney.
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