Well, big Valentine's Day show today, Kevin. Happy Valentine's Day. Are you a Valentine's Day person?

So my wife and I do celebrate Valentine's Day, but we celebrate it a day early because if you go out to the restaurants on Valentine's Day, it's a disaster. It's too crowded. They give you these little crappy prefix menus. It's not a good scene. So we are going out

on Thursday. That makes a lot of sense. And you've done this for years now. Yes. And do you tell the

servers that you're sort of sneaking in a little early for Valentine's? No, but I don't think we're

the only people who have figured this out because the restaurants have become crowded the day before Valentine's Day, too. There must have been a memo. What about you?

Are you celebrating Valentine's Day? So, here's the thing. On paper, you would think that I would not

be that into Valentine's. Oh, another commercial holiday designed to get me to buy a card at

Walgreens, whatever. Who needs that? I'm throwing myself into Valentine's

Day with a fervor that is frankly shocking even to myself. Tell me about it. I've bought

decorations for my house for Valentine's Day. Some of them are battery operated. That's how into

this I'm getting. I think it's going to be so much fun. Wow. Yeah.

You are such a wife guy now. I've become an absolute trad wife for my boyfriend.

You have gone from being very cynical about romance to being the most romantic person I know.

Do you know the Kelly Clarkson song Miss Independent?

Because it's about exactly this.

It's about a sort of independent young woman

who thinks she can make it in the world on her own and that oops she falls in love and that

everything changes. So I'm looking forward to a great Valentine's Day. Well, I'm excited for you.

Thank you. Me too. I'm Kevin Roos, a tech columnist at the New York Times.

I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.

And this is Hard Fork.

This week, Kevin reports back from the Paris AI Action Summit, where there was a conspicuous lack of action.

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