--- title: Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become description: Jersey Mike's IPO S-1 filing mentions AI 22 times despite being a sandwich chain with no meaningful AI products. The piece uses this as a lens to critique how... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/jersey-mike-s-ipo-illustrates-how-bad-the-ai-hype-has-become-dgrbgslzp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become | daily.dev og:description: Jersey Mike's IPO S-1 filing mentions AI 22 times despite being a sandwich chain with no meaningful AI products. The piece uses this as a lens to critique how... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/jersey-mike-s-ipo-illustrates-how-bad-the-ai-hype-has-become-dgrbgslzp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dGRbGSlZp.png og:image:alt: Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jersey Mike's IPO S-1 filing mentions AI 22 times despite being a sandwich chain with no meaningful AI products. The piece uses this as a lens to critique how pervasive AI hype has become, with companies across all industries feeling compelled to sprinkle AI references into investor documents to satisfy market appetite. The author draws a humorous comparison: weather risk was mentioned 5 times and lightning zero times, yet AI risk warranted 22 mentions for a company that sells submarine sandwiches. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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