Tech founder criticized for vibe coding game about shooting 'zombies' in San Francisco's poorest neighborhood

Pierre-Louis Biojout, founder of Y Combinator-backed AI startup NanoCorp, took heat from San Francisco residents and city leaders this week after publishing a weekend vibe coding project: a web-based shooter set in SF's Tenderloin district, which is known for homelessness and open drug use.

"San Francisco couldn't fix the Tenderloin," Biojout said in a now-deleted X post on October 13. "So I monetized it [as a] Call of Duty style zombie shooter on the real SF streets." He noted that he'd already made $300 from in-game ads.

The game, called Tenderloin Night Shift, had players shoot "zombies" that, according to reports from the SF Chronicle and KRON4 news, included a "folded" fentanyl addict and a Black security guard.

Speaking to the Chronicle, Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the SF Coalition on Homelessness, said that Biojout was "monetizing the dehumanization and pretend killing for fun of mostly Black and Brown residents of the poorest neighborhood in San Francisco."

In a correspondence …