AI bubble debate: designer predicts internet-style reset but says AI itself is here to stay
AIandDesign · x · 2026-10-22
In an X exchange, AIandDesign responds to the claim that AI's ROI is currently negative — trillions invested against returns in the low tens of billions — by predicting an internet-bubble-style reset: many startups and smaller companies will fail, while well-run companies survive. The technology itself, he argues, isn't going anywhere.
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