Is the AI product flood a bubble? A dev argues the noise taxes small builders
FrancescoMassa2001 · reddit · 2026-10-01
An indie developer's Reddit essay argues the weekly flood of half-baked AI models and agent frameworks is worse for small SaaS builders than the earlier scarcity, and likens today's AI wrappers to Pets.com — possibly the messy phase of a wave whose infrastructure will still matter.
- Internet and mobile bubbles looked dumb but left useful infrastructure
- Opportunity cost is real: he killed two side projects after their chosen foundations were deprecated
- Picking the wrong stack on hype is a genuine tax on small projects
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