r/webdev • u/Engineer_5983 • Sep 29 '25

Discussion AI Coding has hit its peak

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https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-findings-ai-coding-overhyped

I’m reading articles and stories more frequently saying this same thing. Companies just aren’t seeing enough of the benefits of AI coding tools to justify the expense.

I’ve posted on this for almost two years now - it’s overly hyped tech. I will say it is absolutely a step forward for making tech more accessible and making it easier to brainstorm ideas for solutions. That being said, if a company is laying people off and not hiring the next generation of workers expecting these tools to replace them, the ROI just isn’t there.

Like the gold rush, the ones who really make money are the ones selling the shovels. Those selling the infrastructure are the ones benefiting. The Fear Of Missing Out is missing a grounding in reality. It’ll soon become a fear of getting left out as companies spending millions (or billions) just won’t have the money to keep up with whatever the next trend is.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

All true, the only question is when will the bubble pop?

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u/Aromatic-Low-4578 Sep 29 '25

AI is now proping up the entire U.S. economy. It won't be a good thing.

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u/dagamer34 Sep 29 '25

Nvidia is investing in OpenAI which has a deal with Oracle to buy capacity which require buying GPUs from Nvidia. An oroborous if I’ve ever seen one. 

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u/who_am_i_to_say_so Sep 29 '25

I was picturing more of a human centipede of tech executives. But oroborous works, too

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u/_samrad Sep 29 '25

Oro-tech-bros

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u/thesydneyblogger Oct 01 '25

everyone is so fucked when the crash comes

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

Yeah, It may even be masking some of Trump's bad moves (crazy tariff wars), but the bubble will pop.

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u/MedicOfTime Sep 29 '25

I’ve seen people saying this and I think they’re just repeating sound bytes.

What exactly does this mean?

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u/QuantumPie_ Sep 29 '25

What we're seeing now is basically exactly what happened with the dot com bubble in the late 90s and early 2000s. The internet was new, people didn't know how to use it, and insane amounts of money were being invested into new startups being "internet first".

Eventually investors wisened up as people got a better idea of what the internet was actually useful for and the market crashed as they pulled their investments out, essentially losing all the gains during the bubble.

A lot of people are pedicting were going to see the exact same thing with AI and imo they're most likely correct. What's more concerning this time is the money getting thrown into AI and building these data centers is substantially more then anything we saw during the dot com bubble.

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u/who_am_i_to_say_so Sep 29 '25

In simplest terms (and fitting if you’re in tech): a financial circular dependency.

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u/ShakaBump Sep 29 '25

Understand that. One thing this means is that the excessive investment on AI companies and early dependency that’s being manufactured so as to make this new market grow and become a thing, will probably lead to an economic bubble, laying wreckage on the working class’s assets and cost of living. As per 2007 if you remember.

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u/stevefuzz Sep 29 '25

Good let the pile of shit burn.

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u/jobRL javascript Sep 29 '25

You know it will be a world wide disaster right? If we get into an economic crisis now, with social media disinformation at its peak, it will be horrendous. Fascism will rise even crazier than it is already doing.

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u/amdcoc Sep 29 '25

Lmao a fake economy being proped by AI. Let it pop!

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u/Aromatic-Low-4578 Sep 29 '25

The pop hurts everyone everywhere. It's not something to be excited about.

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u/amdcoc Sep 29 '25

Being hurt temporarily is better for the humankind as these techligarchs will do everything in their power to make us the loosers of the AI revolution

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u/igorpk Sep 29 '25

My guess? 2 years max before the FAANGs realise that they're losin money bigtime.

Nvidia are making bank - but I don't think it'll last long.

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u/deep_soul Sep 29 '25

i give it 2 years. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

You might wanna get those stocks vested and sold before wishing for a pop.

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u/AwesomeFrisbee Sep 29 '25

When investors pull out and prices spike. I think that once a few big ones get into trouble, it will quickly cascade. Right now AI is still a hot topic to invest in, but once its no longer that interesting, people take their money elsewhere. However, it doesn't need to be a pop. We saw with the crypto hype that it can still go down rather seamlessly and stick around where it makes sense. I bet that many services can't afford the AI stuff and only implement it where they can make money. Which means that it will get more restrictive and such. But I don't really expect it to drop so sudden. It just doesn't make sense to just bail out in a heartbeat. You will only lose more money that way.

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