Tarek Mansour

And, you know, some of us have stayed, you know, and the reason I never left is because I think it's my job to be close to my sources.

I named sources for a reason.

And the AI community in particular has never left X like X.

To say that you're trying to cover this industry and understand what's going on and you're not on X and you're not interacting, you're not to me, you're not doing your job well.

Sure, you can still break news and you can still, you know, you may not need it, but it still has been tremendously advantageous to me from that perspective.

And it's the main reason I've stayed on.

But yeah, I think that's why he did the interview.

It's like there's not a lot of news.

It's kind of all over the place.

I mean, I feel like you go to do you check blue sky or threads much?

That just came to me.

No LLM involved, actually.

Yeah, thank you.

I mean, I wanted a little bit of rage bait.

This was like a classic Blue Sky rage bait story.

I would say the vast majority of my peers in tech media are very active on Blue Sky and not at all on X, maybe some on Threads.

I think Threads is actually trending in the direction of Reddit if you look at what they're doing with the community stuff.

uh the sports stuff that they're leaning into uh connor hayes the head of threads is also going to be in sources this week but he just did a podcast uh with a bunch of nba people i think they're going more in that direction and for x i mean they really need to convince people to leave blue sky which i don't know i mean blue sky is its own echo chamber man it's like

Yeah.

You jump on there and it's like, you better, you can, you can imagine immediately in your head, like this is, this is what it takes to work on blue sky and to, to be successful.