But when the leaders began to speak, I quickly recognized this is something new, and in it, a rare opportunity for powerful revolution driven by the technology we love. Each of these men and women shared a story along similar lines: “I’m from this country, the dictator wants me dead, I fled, now I work for change.” Hearing from them, I was struck by the gravity of what we had gathered to do. There are families who need uniting, there are local leaders who need a platform, there is information to be uncensored. There are real people on the end of the vibe-coded hack.

Thanks for mentioning this; it's good to be reminded of the (good) impact software can have on people. I almost didn't read this post because I wished I could witness it myself. My remark "AI peak indicator" in the Signal group wrt 50m sats for the winner sounds ignorant now, haha.

I think I came to a wrong prejudicial, sweeping generalization, inspired by the following quote from Chickenhawk, which I read years ago, thinking that any project integrating AI is not worth my attention, at least not for the next few years, when the hype is hopefully over:

'Just remember,' said Farris, 'of the thirty-three kinds of snakes over here, thirty-one are poisonous.'
'How do you tell them apart?' asked Resler.
'I think that with those ratios, you could afford to come to a prejudicial, sweeping generalization – like, kill them all.' Farris turned and left.

I came to this conclusion even though I really came to love what the team behind Cursor did, and I use ChatGPT a lot to make sure there are no mistakes in my English writing, including this comment. Cognitive dissonance?