Thompson rips Zitron's two-year "peak AI" streak: like covering Intel's 1971 IPO with a Moore's Law denier
binarybits · x · 2026-10-29
Jon's new podcast episode hosts Ed Zitron (Better Offline) to unpack the "financial house of cards" propping up AI and big tech.
Derek Thompson pushes back hard: AI is hard to predict and he's been wrong too, but Zitron has been claiming peak AI for over two years — likening it to covering Intel's 1971 IPO with a guest who insisted Moore's Law peaked in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970. Your source is confidently commenting on a phenomenon his prior commentary deemed impossible.
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