There are real signs of an AI bubble, but if it bursts it burns the greedy investors, not the technology - just like the dotcom crash never cancelled the web.
AI is neither total automation nor useless hype. It lives on a continuous line between manual and automatic, and the honest work is figuring out where on that line your case belongs.
A plain-language explainer: an agent is software that wraps a language model, building the prompt with retrieved context and tools and interpreting the response before it reaches you.
My hot take on the GPT-5 launch: incremental additions, a cringe-worthy live demo, and the clearest sign yet that OpenAI has stopped innovating.
The doomer scenario where AI takes over in two years misses the point: the short-term story is about infrastructure, power concentration, and how jobs change.
