In San Francisco, you can see the future first. Leopold Aschenbrenner is right.

From the airport to the hotel, all AI advertisements. Twilio is the AI agent tool I previously wrote to wake you up with calls during crypto price surges and drops. Hosting the SIGNAL conference in San Francisco, the entire focus is on agents.
Linear used Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" with the phrase "Agents. At your command."
Notion's "Meet the night shift, your 24/7 AI team," describes agents as colleagues working night shifts for you.
There’s also Nebius, selling AI computing power (formerly involved in Bitcoin mining, later shifted to compute power).
Google’s Gemini by the seaside, Lyft shared bikes.
Having breakfast at the hotel in the morning, looking out the window, there's a sign for Judgment Labs.
It’s as if the whole city is talking to itself.
Anthropic (Claude’s parent company) released an article on June 4th titled "When AI builds itself," saying Claude is now writing over 80% of its own code, and AI agents are starting to train themselves.
The day before, Cloudflare announced that web traffic from robots had surpassed humans for the first time, at 57.5% versus 42.5%. Even the CEOs felt it was happening too fast, expecting it to occur only by 2027.
Taking Uber out, fully autonomous driving, a 20-minute ride costs only $12, cheaper than in Hong Kong.
Waymo is everywhere on the streets.
It’s so AI-driven that, in this environment, you can truly see the future.