Why “Craze” is being discussed
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The AI craze very much reminds me of the crypto craze a few years ago - lots of people new to the industry jumping on the latest trend and building tooling for something that do…
by grey-area · Oct 31, 2026
It's the cryptobro craze but for AI. It's tiresome, I don't have AI fatigue, I love using Claude, I have aibro fatigue. I'll lump in the people all in on AI, and that includes a…
by giancarlostoro · Oct 30, 2026
Many people are tired of watching the world slowly getting worse and hope for a fire. They hope there's a phoenix-like resurrection and they'll be the winners. That might be gam…
by stephbook · Oct 30, 2026
Others want to nitpick but generally yes, before we had AI, the last craze was cloud, so they shuffled things around to the point that everything was "cloud". This is also how O…
by stefan_ · Oct 29, 2026
Oh, yeah, it was definitely being done for the wrong purpose. But it was fun, more fun than solving the problems. OOP and the design pattern craze made it feel like progress, wh…
by tikotus · Oct 28, 2026
Yes, agree. I migrated from DigitalOcean to Hetzner some time ago (also because they're European, and a bit cheaper), but then the AI craze started and now all their smaller vir…
by reddalo · Oct 28, 2026
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