Inside San Francisco’s AI Gold Rush: Moats, Harnesses & Opus 5.5
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Inside San Francisco’s AI Gold Rush: Moats, Harnesses & Opus 5.5

We spent a week in San Francisco at peak AI hype: speaking at conferences, attending OpenAI’s Dev Day, and visiting founders’ offices in Palo Alto. Here’s everything we learned.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Everyone is building the same thing
6:02 Value is extracted via capabilities
11:40 What a harness means in 2026
18:53 Outro