Bonjour,
I’m headed to Miami next week for Consensus. See you there?!
We had a lot of fun on the live yesterday, catch up below.
ily,
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Show Me Your Stack, our first Boys Club Network show, premiered yesterday.
What do people in tech actually use every day? Hosted by Jules Rosenberg and set across San Francisco, this series dives into the real workflows behind the people building the internet.
This show is brought to you by Vercel, the perfect partner for this series because they've been making building for the web (and now agents) faster and more accessible since day one. They empower everyone, from independent developers to Fortune 500 companies, to ship what's next.
Picture this: you’re at a smelly, hot venue on the Lower East Side. It’s packed wall to wall with the terminally online. They’re drinking Diet Coke and screaming at each other over experimental AI-generated music. This was the scene at the AI Psychosis Summit last night.
A handful of organizers decided to throw this event a few weeks ago, and the invite reached minor escape velocity online as the event neared.
By last night, 20 exhibitors were confirmed, 1000 people had RSVPed, and over the course of the event 500 people came through. The vibe in the room was explicitly pro-tech, but I wouldn't say pro-capitalism. On display was a funny mix of projects, prototypes, and artist installations that ranged from pure experimentation to legitimate startups.
A pornographic AI-generated video project by Shloms, where Donald Trump is giving Bill Clinton head, looped on screen. A horror game about AI destroying the world, set in Central Park and populated by NPCs modeled from real attendees at the summit, was played throughout the night.
I watched demos for an astrology trading bot, a hamster-themed integrated journal, and an AI prank calling livestream. "We're not here to define AI psychosis… It's obvious that people just want to experiment without being policed by an army of webMD pc-cels or activist crisis actors acting like interacting with tech is inherently evil or anti human." Marcy Gettles, one of the organizers, said.
Quasimatt, friend of the pod and another creator of the event, said “It’s a moment that’s part of a movement. A lot of the point was to show that using AI can be more than sitting at your laptop. It can be interactive, social, and fun. Every single person that presented is someone at least one of us knows. The common denominator is social, not ideological or professional. It’s both tech and culture because, as a group, we are in both of those worlds.”
The evening was reminiscent of 2021 crypto but more tech-y, less money-ed, and slightly more utilitarian. So I have my hesitations, but overall you love to see when someone only throw this party 4 u and it comes together.
