Claude Blue is a term I coined, but it names something real: the AI depression now spreading through Silicon Valley. A conversation with a senior AI engineer at Meta, and with a Silicon Valley founder. In 2025, AI hit the coding world. Two camps argued fiercely: hand coding entirely to
Koreans are not like this only with AI. It was the same with Bitcoin, the same with real estate, the same every time a new platform opened. People were not excited because they were curious about Silicon Valley trends. The feeling of falling behind if they skipped this was already
Most of the questions were about philosophy, not technology. Why choose the painful path? If the people building the future of AI are depressed, is that future okay? How the interview happened We never expected a post on Reddit to reach the United States. A journalist from an independent outlet
A founder whose deal collapsed the day before signing and a Toss engineer preparing a YouTube channel reached the same conclusion: what lasts is not the ability to build, but the ability to reach.
A curated dinner for 4 to 6 people, matched by interest. No speakers, no sessions, only conversation. Free weekly meetups continue as always.
We opened twenty seats with no agenda and thirty-five people came. Four months of members told us, honestly, where this community should go.
People in Washington do not read the Washington Post. What a16z worked out about new media, and why we decided to stay unpolished instead of getting slicker.
A twenty four hour defense hackathon put AI builders in a room with soldiers and veterans. The technology gap with adversaries is now measured in months, not years.
A senior AI engineer at Meta said the infrastructure was breaking. That conversation became a term, then a post that traveled, then a community of thousands in Seoul.
Seventeen patterns that kept repeating: why FOMO burns out, why vibe coding raised the bar instead of lowering it, and why the moat is distribution rather than technology.
AI already makes music better than people do, he said. But nobody consumes only the music. They consume the story on either side of it, and that part is still ours.
An AI engineer, a culture critic, a philosophy YouTuber, and a media studies professor in one room in Seoul, talking about what the models are doing to the people who use them most.