The AI Bubble Looks A Lot Like Dot-Com Bust - Seeking Alpha

Everyone warned us the dot-com boom was different. It wasn't. And the AI hype cycle is starting to feel uncomfortably familiar. If you bought an AI tool that your team quietly stopped using — you're

Everyone warned us the dot-com boom was different. It wasn't.

And the AI hype cycle is starting to feel uncomfortably familiar.

If you bought an AI tool that your team quietly stopped using — you're not behind. You just got caught in the same wave that swept up perfectly smart business owners during the dot-com era. They didn't fail because they were foolish. They failed because vendors sold promises, not solutions.

Here's what that era actually teaches us: the businesses that survived weren't the ones who moved fastest. They were the ones who matched the tool to a real, specific problem they already had. Not a theoretical future problem. A current, painful, measurable one.

That's the only question worth asking right now. Not "what AI should I buy?" but "what task is costing me the most time or money every week?" Answer that first. Then find the tool that solves exactly that — nothing more.

One small win in 30 days builds more momentum than a six-month AI strategy that never launches.

What's the one repetitive task in your business you'd eliminate tomorrow if you could?

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I owned a small business in San Francisco during Dot com boom. It had nothing to do with circumstances now. Questionable businesses just added ...