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>>donsup+(OP)
The last few weeks (months, really) has highlighted an incredible lack of discernment in the VC-verse wrt the thing we call web3. Now. I have no experience doing what YC does and don’t claim to, but the jig here was so transparent that the smallest drop of “street smart” should’ve been enough to set off some alarms.

We’re approaching a point where being passed over for “culture fit” is a compliment. Hopefully the embarrassment is enough to expand the founder vetting checkboxes.

>>okwubo+x7
I think this is something like AI -- where people who are calling it "AI" are often sales people/hucksters (I mean this as little a pejorative sense as possible), and the people calling it "ML" are the practitioners/people you should be listening to.

Once a phrase gains mainstream adoption and starts to rapidly lose meaning, I find that people who care dearly about that thing start calling it something else.

That said -- I really struggle to find the people who are really all in on crypto in a technical sense. Where are the people building cool things and trying to push the boundaries with crypto? Surely it's still happening but just hard to find it in all the debris/trash.

>>hardwa+Nb
To mean this sounds like it's trying to shift the blame to an outgroup. I think we have to acknowledge that there are bad people within our (SWE) ranks too.

>>im3w1l+eC
You’re right, I did not mean to exclude SWE from the group of hucksters, I agree that they’re part of it.

The number of developers became a key metric for coins to project legitimacy and there are certainly SWEs who are bad actors and/or knowingly contributing