If you were in San Francisco during the crypto token boom, the AI token boom feels weirdly familiar, especially at the extremes. Extreme displays of wealth. This constant paranoia that you need to make generational money right now or somehow you’ll end up poor. Everyone around you seems to be getting richer, so even if you’re doing objectively well, you start feeling like you’re the only idiot missing the trade haha Then come the shady deals, insiders making absurd money, people optimizing every relationship for upside, very little loyalty, and a surprising amount of betrayal the second incentives change. It creates this strange atmosphere where ambition, FOMO, greed and genuine technological excitement are all mixed together. The huge difference is that AI is actually an extraordinary underlying technology. The economic value being created is real, the productivity gains are real, and the benefit to humanity is enormous!! So from my experience, the boom can feel unhealthy at the edges while the thing we’re collectively building is incredibly healthy and important.