The AI bubble has further to run despite the looming crash | Phillip Inman - The Guardian

The AI bubble is still inflating. Which means the hype — and the bad vendor advice — isn't going away anytime soon. If you've already paid for a tool your team quietly stopped using, you're not behin

The AI bubble is still inflating. Which means the hype — and the bad vendor advice — isn't going away anytime soon.

If you've already paid for a tool your team quietly stopped using, you're not behind. You're actually ahead of most business owners who haven't admitted it yet.

Here's what the economists tracking this bubble understand: the AI market is being driven by stock valuations and vendor ambition, not by whether the tools actually work for businesses like yours. That's not cynicism. That's just the gap between Wall Street excitement and Main Street reality.

The good news? Bubbles create noise. Noise creates confusion. Confusion is where bad vendors thrive — and where patient, focused buyers win.

You don't need to pick the "best" AI tool. You need to pick one small, contained problem in your business and solve just that. One workflow. One repetitive task. Thirty days. Measure it.

That's your first real win — and it costs almost nothing to test before you commit.

What's the one task in your business that eats time every week but doesn't require much thinking? Drop it below — curious what patterns come up.

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