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Definitely has always been some absurdity and I think there always will be. I think it only varies in the degree!

I started my career in the mid-90s and 4GLs making all of us obsolete was already a thing by then!

I think the fad that most closely aligned with current AI absurdity was mid-2000s outsourcing.

I feel like it was the dot com boom. :s/"Make everything online"/"Make everything use AI"/g

In a similar story, AI makes sense for some stuff but not other stuff. The stuff where it does not make sense for is gonna do bad when the bubble pops.

Heh. Back in the 1970s, AD/Cycle was The Big New Thing that was going to make everything else obsolete. Fortunately, that was just a bit before I started, so I never had to worry about it, because it never did much of anything.