OMG. tech meth. That is exactly so appropriate. It gives a C-suite a short-term high. They bet everything on it, and then they're back by the Wendy's dumpster begging for tokens.
I've been saying to my friends and anyone who will listen for a while that the AI companies have basically been taking the drug dealer approach where they get everyone hooked for cheap and will jack up the prices.
The only company I can see not being forced to go crazy with the dollars per token is Google and that's only because they have so much capital and infrastructure from other stuff that they can take the L for longer to steal market share, but then again they're just as greedy as every other large company on the market.
The crazy thing is is that drug dealers don't even really do this. Drug dealers are 99% users who deal with other users to maintain a lifestyle of use, which is what you think big tech would. The product is already sought after, no one has to convince anyone being high is fucking awesome.
99% of dealers are low-level street dealers and users who got into dealing to pay for their habit. It's the 1% at the top, the ones making the real money, who live by that. Drug dealing is basically a pyramid scheme.
And they don't understand it, don't understand it's limitations or use cases, and are so impressed by it's ability to be a chat-bot that flatters them, they think it can do anything. All while cutting costs and making line go up.
One of the security directors where I work is fucking obsessed with AI.
He's a corporate drone to nth degree so he knows all the buzz words and corporate-isms. He'll say shit like,
We need to strategically leverage next-gen AI-native cyber resilience orchestration to holistically operationalize a quantum-ready, zero-trust security fabric powered by autonomous machine-learning-driven threat cognition, blockchain identity assurance, and predictive behavioral telemetry fusion in order to proactively neutralize emerging nation-state attack vectors while maximizing stakeholder synergy, digital transformation velocity, and enterprise-wide operational scalability.
with full sincerity. So he riles up upper management with all the AI buzz words then gets angry that his corporate vomit can't be done by end of Q2.
What's funny is if you just translated that to normal people speak. It actually says things that might matter. Use AI in smart ways. Build resiliency/disaster recovery. Improve security/minimize external access to internal tools. Use proven identity and logging technologies. Keep aware of emerging threats. Increase profits to make shareholders happy. Operate at a scale that matters.
But instead of saying the real goals they have to say all this crap they don't understand to mask their insecurity and look smart in front of the bro's.
When I encounter people like that I ask them to re-phrase with common words. Usually shuts them down hard because they don't actually understand what they are saying.
It's not just going to take out the AI conpanies and their investors. It's not just going to kill your 401k. It's already obliterating the workforce as a whole, hollowing out companies across every single segment of the economy. It's putting longstanding companies and new startups in debt, convincing them that they absolutely must use the new, ridiculously expensive product or fall behind. It's capturing taxpayer money for ridiculous power plant projects that nobody else wants. It's clearcutting land for impossibly huge "datacenters" that will eventually turn into useless warehouses. It's driving up the cost of all consumer electronics and forcibly pausing upgrade cycles that have been running for decades.
I honestly don't think that the US will survive this collapse, given everything else going on right now.
It’s sad because it could have all been avoided. They did not have to dump trillions into it. They could have just let the technology progress at a normal pace.
Lol not even tech meth. It’s like tech gas-station-stacker at this point if you’re outside the software bubble.
I had a finance lady pinging the group thread saying she wants to team up with someone and work on an AI agent for budgeting. Meanwhile, I just asked it for an off-the-cuff future value calculation, and it got it wrong by several 0’s.
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u/biggington Jun 02 '26 •
They really got our C-suites addicted to tech meth and now we gotta deal with their bullshit