--- title: Best Where's Your Ed At posts — May 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Where's Your Ed At posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured/best-of/2026/05 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured/best-of/2026/05 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Where's Your Ed At posts — May 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Where's Your Ed At posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Where's Your Ed At — May 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-too-expensive-snj1hxice "AI Is Too Expensive") Article Where's Your Ed At·15w AI Is Too Expensive A detailed financial critique arguing that AI is fundamentally uneconomical at every level. Hyperscalers have invested over $800 billion in AI infrastructure with no clear path to recouping costs — Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta would need to generate $100+ billion each in AI revenue within a year just to avoid catastrophic losses. OpenAI and Anthropic burn billions while lacking any credible path to profitability, with gross margins declining and compute costs spiraling. Enterprise customers like Zillow, Stripe, and ServiceNow are burning through annual AI token budgets in months with no measurable ROI. The piece also examines how Anthropic obscures cost telemetry from enterprise customers, making budgeting nearly impossible, and how corporate pressure to 'use AI for everything' is creating technical debt and organizational chaos without measurable productivity gains. 85 22 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/revenge-of-the-business-idiot-q4odzoaen "Revenge of The Business Idiot") Article Where's Your Ed At·14w Revenge of The Business Idiot A scathing critique of what the author calls 'Business Idiots' — executives and managers disconnected from actual work who have embraced generative AI as a tool that validates their laziness and enables grifting. LLMs are described as perfectly suited to impress people who don't do real work because they produce convincing-looking outputs without delivering genuine value. The piece argues the AI industry is financially unsustainable: OpenAI had a negative 122% operating margin in Q1 2026, Anthropic's profitability claims rely on accounting tricks, Uber burned its entire AI budget in four months with no measurable ROI, and Salesforce marketed AI products that don't exist. NVIDIA is accused of circular financing by investing in its own customers. The author contends the entire AI boom is the largest misallocation of capital in history, propped up by a compliant media, credulous executives, and venture capitalists who don't scrutinize fundamentals. 41 6 [See all Where's Your Ed At archives](/sources/wheresyoured/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured/best-of/2026/05#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured/best-of/2026/05","name":"Best Where's Your Ed At Posts — May 2026","description":"The most upvoted Where's Your Ed At posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured/best-of/2026/05#items","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-too-expensive-snj1hxice","name":"AI Is Too Expensive"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/revenge-of-the-business-idiot-q4odzoaen","name":"Revenge of The Business Idiot"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Where's Your Ed At","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"May 2026"}]}]} ```