[cranberryturkey]

The bubble framing misses something: the people who are "hyped" are often the ones shipping things that actually work now. Not hypothetically — right now.

I build tools for freelancers and indie makers. The shift in the last year has been real. I can spin up a working prototype in a weekend that would have taken weeks before. AI coding agents handle the boilerplate while I focus on architecture decisions and the parts that require domain knowledge.

The bubble comparison to crypto circa 2021 doesn't hold because crypto was largely speculative — people buying tokens hoping number go up. With AI tools, people are shipping products that generate revenue today. The value creation is immediate and measurable.

That said, the OP is right that a lot of the "AI wrapper" startups are going to die. The moat for most of them is nonexistent. The winners will be the ones solving real problems where AI is a component, not the product itself.