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This reads like an episode of Silicon Valley. I wish that show was rebooted, they'd have so much funny material nowadays.

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I think real life has far eclipsed the absurdity of the original show. They might have a hard time competing with just the news now days.

Even back then Mike Judge said he had to tone down the absurdity he saw on fact-finding trips to Bay Area. He said no one would believe how absolutely stupid so much of all of it he saw was.

Or they might give tech companies more ideas!

Gilfoyle was really ahead of the times with Son of Anton.

I loved that show. The love that went into it really shows.

Sadly the gap between reality and satire has shrunk.

But yes. I also wish that show would come back.

Noam shazeer would be google head dreamer

The gap between reality and satire was apparently already very small back when the the show was written. The creator, Mike Judge (who also created Beavis & Butthead, and Idiocracy) had worked in Silicon Valley as a developer and based the show on what he saw. Apparently it was very popular with SV insiders precisely because it was so accurate.

Judge also consulted with various teams at places like Google; I worked with one of the guys who provided details that later showed up on the show (as well as many plushies). He didn't watch the show because "it hit too close to home"

And office space!

Three comma guy would now be four comma guy

Wonder what the modern version of the hotdog app would be?

Agent harness?

Your dream may be only a prompt away.

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