This isn't gonna be a slow wind down...

The main reason everyone was "all in" was the risk/reward. If it paid off, anyone not using it would be fucked. So once one corp bought in, they all did.

But once a few big ones drop out, the "everyone else is doing it" vanishes. The risk/reward math changes.

If everyone else is doing it, it's a huge risk not to. But as soon as one stops, the pressure becomes getting out in time before it crashes.

And when investors pull out, is all based on vibes. It can happen at any moment for any reason, so people will start to pull out lowering the price and make it even more likely others will.

AI could go away as fast as it showed up with no warning.

Yeah, up to a month ago at $DAYJOB, it was sacrilegious to insinuate that perhaps we shouldn't be using AI for every goddamn brainfart.

But the finance folks always win in the end, and now there's more and more mails being sent to all employees, which do mention the costs of AI. No one has officially said yet that we should be mindful of our usage, but that's definitely coming.

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