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A Day at the Center of the AI Boom (2023)

In San Francisco, there’s one rule to live by: Layer up.

Oct 2, 2024Updated Feb 2, 2026

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Yesterday was OpenAI’s DevDay, and ICYMI, Dan Shipper published his first impressions right out of the gate. His overall takeaway: The company behind ChatGPT has made important incremental progress on the path to GPT-5. Watch out for more analysis from Dan later this week. In the meantime, we’re revisiting his essay from 11 months ago, shortly after OpenAI’s first-ever developer conference, in which he captured San Francisco’s unique blend of innovation, contradiction, and relentless optimism.—Kate Lee

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San Francisco's climate always makes me feel like I have a fever. It's warm and pleasant in the sun, but if you have the misfortune of walking into the shadow of a building you're suddenly shivering like you've got the flu. So I've come to follow a singular rule for visiting the tech capital of the world: 

Layer up.

Once you have wrapped yourself to the gills in Patagonia paraphernalia, as I now do, you can truly experience the city—its delights, terrors, and idiosyncrasies.

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