Will AI Replacement Anxiety Fade Like the Dot-Com Bubble?
RealGeneKim · x · 2026-07-14
A reshared post referenced an analogy from Steve Sinofsky:
- In 1999, people briefly believed that search and copy-paste would replace many jobs;
- But that judgment later proved to be an exaggeration;
- He argues that today's anxiety around "all jobs being replaced by AI" will experience a similar cooling-off period.
A quoted comment added a real-life example: a PM returning from maternity leave found that many colleagues and partners had outsourced "critical thinking" to Claude, simply copying and pasting the output.
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