Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists
by AndrewKemendo on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:16AM
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Long time artificial intelligence engineer and founder here: Welcome to the feast or famine world of AI, none of this is new. This is just how life works as somebody trying to build AI as their focus.
I don’t know a single artificial intelligence researcher working in the field for more than 20 years, who hasn’t gotten laid off once or twice in their career because all of the funding fell out for whatever their AI project.
Not only that it was usually funded by some government, and so you had to deal with the political funding cycle in addition to the technology development cycle (still very true).
It’s always been like this “frontier tech “ or “bleeding edge technology” etc…
This is most likely not the final cycle, one where we finally all realize that artificial intelligence is the only technology worth working on and I would be surprised if this is the last “AI bubble.”
The key thing to remember, though is that every AI cycle or AI bubble leads to an entirely evolved set of infrastructure, technologies, and architecture, and ultimately those are the things that matter
Whether or not you make any money is usually the last concern of anyone who’s been working in AI seriously, we’re gonna keep working on AI no matter what.
I don’t know a single artificial intelligence researcher working in the field for more than 20 years, who hasn’t gotten laid off once or twice in their career because all of the funding fell out for whatever their AI project.
Not only that it was usually funded by some government, and so you had to deal with the political funding cycle in addition to the technology development cycle (still very true).
It’s always been like this “frontier tech “ or “bleeding edge technology” etc…
This is most likely not the final cycle, one where we finally all realize that artificial intelligence is the only technology worth working on and I would be surprised if this is the last “AI bubble.”
The key thing to remember, though is that every AI cycle or AI bubble leads to an entirely evolved set of infrastructure, technologies, and architecture, and ultimately those are the things that matter
Whether or not you make any money is usually the last concern of anyone who’s been working in AI seriously, we’re gonna keep working on AI no matter what.