Grady Booch: Don't Call It an AI Winter, Call It 'The Great Descent'
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-20
Turing Award laureate and software engineering legend Grady Booch said on X that any coming downturn shouldn't be called 'the next AI Winter' but rather 'the Great Descent.' The phrase is a pointed double entendre — a literal 'great decline' that also mocks gradient descent, the core mechanism of today's deep learning, implying the whole paradigm may slide rather than just cool cyclically.
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