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Re:GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on... by j45 on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:09PM (#44945360)
Truly, except now everyone's online and spending time online and spending cash online.
Re:GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on... by pixl97 on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:13PM (#44945406)
And, the .com bomb killed some companies and slowed down spending for a bit. It did not kill the internet, and now companies like Amazon(.com) are absolutely enormous.

Some people think the GenAI bomb is going to kill GenAI, I think it's just going to weed out those with too high of expenses and no way to evolve the compute to be cheaper over time.

Re:GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on... by sech8420 on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:03PM (#44945792)
"Some people think the GenAI bomb is going to kill GenAI,"

Sure, a very very small percentage of people who know hardly anything about GenAI might think this.

Re:GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on... by __loam on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:57PM (#44946207)
It's the opposite. The more I learn about the financial state of these companies the worse my opinion gets.
Re:GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on... by j45 on Monday August 18, 2025 @08:48PM (#44947073)
There was barely no one using the internet then let alone doing e-commerce.

It’s worth reading up on it to see what’s actually comparable.

Re:GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on... by oinfoalgo on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @06:34AM (#44950098)
The forward P/E of the Nasdaq 100 is pretty exemplary of how this is not the same situation at all.

https://en.macromicro.me/series/23955/nasdaq-100-pe

It is easy to spot the dot com bubble on this chart.

Re:GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on... by j45 on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @11:32AM (#44962859)
It’s a fair point. At the same time there’s actual software and not vapourware of the dot com boom.