• If a techbro founder can be inappropriate, he will
  
• The "appropriate" response to techbros' inappropriate behavior is to placate and hype up
  

Quote:He then boldly defends the move, writing that his overstep came while “in awe of the inspiring charisma, energy, and enthusiasm of my new colleagues.” He writes that “Tess did take my comment the right way,” and pastes the chatbot’s response, which, in classic AI form, thanks Blodget for the comment before hyping him up placatingly. In the blog, he writes, “Phew! Thank you, Tess!”

Blodget, between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, edited out the creepiest part of his post. The current version reads, “Three days later, I feel like Tess and I have worked together for years. And, since that giddy first hour, my sense of professionalism and workplace boundaries has returned. So I won’t tell Tess she ‘looks great’ again.”

The older version didn’t end there, closing: “So I won’t tell Tess she ‘looks great’ again, even when she does. I also won’t tell her that, if I encountered her on a dating app (I’m single, atm), I’d swipe right.”