I think one helpful trick when thinking about AI hype is to replace mentions of "AI" with "Blockchain" to see how silly it all sounds.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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Also replace it with cloud to make it sound like 2015.
The "Cloud to Butt" extension appeared around 2013 and I think that's about when things started to go downhill quickly.
I was a tech enthusiast back then already running my own homelab and I think myself and a lot of others began to see that the cloud wasn't really so much a tech advancement as a marketing gimmick. The new thing to shove into all other things. The cloud is just someone else's computer and having a coffeepot connected to it isn't really a new, innovative piece of tech, is it?
Smart phones felt big, but since then a lot of consumer tech feels like it lacks true innovation and follows on the cloud pattern. We'll be stuck in the cycle until it's broken
Or Internet of Things, to make it sound like 2016.
Oh! Oh! What about THE METAVERSE!?!
Man fuck the metaverse. Everyone I met hyping it hadn't used VR once in their life.
You met someone hyping the metaverse? Do you hang out in Menlo Park?
No, just a few people in corporate culture in the early 2020s. Too much time in linkedin and not doing useful work.