Not long after the terms “996” and “grindcore” entered the popular lexicon, people started telling me stories about what was happening at startups in San Francisco , ground zero for the artificial intelligence economy. There was the one about the founder who hadnt taken a weekend off in more than six months. The woman who joked that shed given up her social life to work at a prestigious AI company. Or the employees who had started taking their shoes off in the office because, well, if you were...
