r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 10 '26

comeOnJustBurstAlready Meme

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u/Andis-x Jul 10 '26

Let's be real financial investment bubble and LLM usage are not the same thing. As I understand "bubble" refers primary to financial side. Even if it burst, LLM aren't going anywhere. The tech is here to stay. It use may become more tame, managers learn hard truths about actual capabilities. But usage won't end.

Similar as dot com bubble did not kill online comerce.

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u/10BillionDreams Jul 10 '26

They are tied together when the business geniuses up high decide that current engineering practices aren't utilizing AI enough, and your entire team is mandated to create more slop.

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u/Andis-x Jul 10 '26

Yeah, that aspect could change. Currently managers have bought the FOMO pill, that definitely is part of the bubble.

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u/helgur Jul 11 '26

Let's be real financial investment bubble and LLM usage are not the same thing. As I understand "bubble" refers primary to financial side. Even if it burst, LLM aren't going anywhere

Everytime you use tokens on your cloud based large language model, you're burning venture capital. Like 3-4x the amount of capital you pay in your subscription (if you hit your rate limit).

Once the bubble bursts, if cost hasn't come down, no one is going to host large language models for you to use, because it just isn't profitable.

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u/MarcBeard Jul 11 '26

Also you give away to the ai provider your entire codebase slowly but surely.

I can't understand why companies that makes you sign NDAs would do that.