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SF Tech Week 2026

Hot Takes Open Mic

Hosted by Foundations and BloomText

When
6:00 – 8:30 PM
Where
SOMA
Format
Dinner, Experiential and Networking
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50 engineers and their hot takes. One mic.

X is a firehose. The things people actually believe about AI and building — the stuff that only comes out at the bar, after the second drink, off the record — never makes it in. This night is for those.

Are you working deep enough to have formed out-of-distribution opinions about AI, and willing to say them out loud? If so, come say the thing you've been sitting on. Come hear what nobody's talking about yet.

A couple of starters:

"Vibe coding shipped more production bugs this year than junior engineers ever did."

"Software factories suck."

This is a safe space to argue, get argued with, be wrong in public.

Agenda

6:00–6:45 — Food & networking 6:45–8:00 — Hot takes 8:00–8:30 — Networking & wrap

Capped at 50. Snacks, drinks, and food provided.

Hosted & sponsored by https://fndtns.org/ - Seattle's largest invite-only community of 350+ Founder's at the San Francisco Expats Office.

This event is part of #SFTechWeek — a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com

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