Silicon Valley, Ready to Laugh Again?
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter: • The Big Read: Meet the father of Claude Code • Artificial Intelligence: The hijinks around tokenmaxxing • Plus, Recommendations - our weekly pop culture picks: “ Who Blew Up the Georgia Guidestones? ” “ Those Who Are About to Die ” and “ It Was Just an Accident ” Over a good many years, “Silicon Valley,” the HBO show, accomplished a very rare feat: It got the elite of Silicon Valley, the place, to laugh at themselves and take themselves a little less seriously, an achievement as difficult as explaining, say, quantum computing.