I don’t think AI collapses. I think a lot of AI companies do. The internet didn’t disappear after the dot-com crash. A ridiculous number of companies built on top of it did. Feels like a much more likely outcome here too.

100% agree that most people do not want personal software

i don't see how "AI will collapse" follows though. there was a period (remember laundry buddy?) where people were talking about GPT store and all that nonsense, but now everyone sees this is far beyond mere consumer tech coding agents are a thing because language happened to be… Show more

So happy to encounter this type of article here. I’ll come back to your puzzle toward the end because I do think you’re right. Consumers are averse to effort. Agentic workflows require quite a lot of decomposition, design, planning. Nobody is going to do that. But there might be… Show more

@wordgrammer I think your logic for why humans use Instagram is completely off; and the waterfall logic afterwards is also wrong However, hilariously, I think you arrive at the correct conclusions :)

@wordgrammer Also you only really address consumer; when the higher quality use case is enterprise / b2b. However, I think that will have its own issues hahaha