What Kyle Chayka thinks about Silicon Valley
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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2 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Kyle Chayka has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsA.I. companies need to associate themselves with taste precisely because their tools are not very palatable, much less cool, to anyone outside of Silicon Valley.
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Their wordsBut the underlying ideology is familiar from Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg's dictum to "move fast and break things" and replace the messily human with frictionless technology, built by elite engineers who are supposed to know better than anyone else.