AI Bubble: I Hope It Pops
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A satirical opinion piece argues that the AI industry is a bubble but frames the more important question as what a market correction would reveal about enterprise AI spending. The author, a self-declared beneficiary of the AI boom, dissects how most corporate AI initiatives function as insurance against career risk rather than genuine investments, pointing to endless pilots, vague steering committees, and self-reported productivity statistics that trace back to circular, unverifiable sources. The piece proposes a three-question test (what number moved, compared with what, who would notice if it disappeared) to separate real value from theater, and concludes that a correction would be useful quality control rather than a disaster, since only work with measured before-and-after results would survive it.
