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This is just survivorship bias speaking. Some bubbles have a useful core somewhere, but that doesn't mean that every (or even most) bubble does.

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agree on this point, like web3 and blockchain is not essential as of today (CMIIW).

However not in the case of AI (agentic AI / LLM), because simply they already have a use case, and a valid one. Contextual query and document searching / knowledge digging will be there to stay, either in form of current agentic model or different one.

We already had text search, and I don't see the value in adding a bullshittifier on top of that.

Many people do. I can't imagine ever going back to opening ten tabs for a question. It's not like information on the internet was bullshit-free pre-LLMs. For me, it's easier to verify information than to find it.

And what does your verification process look like then, if it somehow doesn't involve doing any research yourself anyway?

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