AI investment bubble enters reckoning phase as companies face high costs
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Zachary Basu
Summary
The article traces the AI investment bubble through three phases over three years: initial suspicion about unproven capital pouring into AI, a mania phase driven by tools like Claude Code and autonomous agents that made early skepticism seem outdated, and a current reckoning where companies realize AI is extraordinary when precisely targeted but ruinously expensive when treated as a universal solution. The piece notes that AI's newest skeptics are emerging from inside the boom itself.
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Companies discovered that AI can be extraordinary when aimed precisely — and ruinously expensive when treated as a universal productivity machine.
AI's newest skeptics are emerging from inside the boom.
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