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AI NewsThe haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

2:47 AM IST · May 17, 2026

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according toa lengthy social media postfrom Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in outcomes is the worst I’ve ever seen.” Using a “back of the envelope AI calculation,” he projected that there are around 10,000 people — founders and employees at companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia — that have “hit retirement wealth of well above $20M,” while everyone else worries “they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.” Plus, “layoffs are in full swing,” and “many software engineers feel that their life’s skill is no longer useful,” leading to confusion about the best career paths and “a deep malaise about work (and its future),” Das said. This prompted some eye-rolling on X, with entrepreneur Deva Hazarikaarguingthat “most of the people in this post” are “incredibly fortunate and can simply make a choice to be happy.” Another usersuggestedit’s “pretty damn novel & also kinda nasty” that in the current cycle, “the same technology is both the lottery ticket & the thing eating your fallback.” The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people – employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders – have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope


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