These worries are valid, but the bubble is not in AI as a whole. It is in one specific bet: that endlessly scaling a single giant language model (or thin wrappers around one) will somehow deliver artificial general intelligence, profitable products, and transformative economics. That bet is showing deep cracks. Recent research backs this up. A 2025 analysis found that transformer models hit a hard mathematical ceiling on creativity: they can only remix past data, and they can

This post explains how we developed a system that detects five primary degradation types and routes each frame through the appropriate restoration model in real time, but more importantly it describes the insight that made the system practical: that weather and visibility change slowly enough that you don't need to classify every frame, just watch for transitions.