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bucolic_frolic

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1. There is so much AI there's going to be little else.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Sun Apr 12, 2026, 06:36 PM

22 hrs ago

No one knows which AI companies will succeed. Companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI, with uncertain payoff. It has Tech Wreck potential just like 2001. It's a bug of our competitive capitalism. There were more than 600 companies making tractors after WWI, how many survived? Remember all the personal computer companies in the 1990s? Boom and bust.

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Is the "AI Boom" already over? Tech Valuations Back to Pre-AI Boom Levels [View all] usonian 23 hrs ago OP

There is so much AI there's going to be little else. bucolic_frolic 22 hrs ago #1

All these AI agents are getting aggregated together Shermann 22 hrs ago #2

The Large Language Models are fungible? bucolic_frolic 22 hrs ago #5

Its going to go lower. nt BootinUp 22 hrs ago #3

I don't think it is just the AI boom that is over. I think all sectors will suffer from this President and his war. Midnight Writer 22 hrs ago #4

And for many applications, you don't need a massive data center flying in outer space Bluetus 22 hrs ago #6

i was seeing tulips. pansypoo53219 19 hrs ago #7

Software stocks are some of what's dragging on the tech sector progree 16 hrs ago #8