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John Mulaney skewers San Francisco tech crowd at Dreamforce


Attendees of the large, annual Dreamforce convention in San Francisco love being the butt of the joke. Final 12 months, Seth Myers entertained them throughout a 40-minute set that poked enjoyable on the tech business’s liberal use of self-affirmations. “You’re reaching, you might be amplifying, you might be accelerating,” Myers mentioned. “‘Architect?’ I noticed ‘architect’ used as a verb. I don’t even suppose architects use ‘architect’ as a verb.” 

On Thursday, the roasting got here courtesy of comedian John Mulaney, who, like Myers, reportedly used parts of his commonplace routine however leaned into roasting the tech crowd particularly, a lot to their delight. “Let me get this straight,” Mulaney reportedly mentioned. “You’re internet hosting a ‘way forward for AI’ occasion in a metropolis that has failed humanity so miserably?” 

Per The San Francisco Commonplace, Mulaney later noticed that “a few of the vaguest language ever devised has been used right here within the final three days. The truth that there are 45,000 ‘trailblazers’ right here couldn’t devalue the title any extra.”