Are we in an AI bubble? On the one hand, lots of people think we're in an AI bubble . Including Sam Altman, whose OpenAI may be the single largest cause, and beneficiary, of the AI bubble. On the other hand … vibes? By which I mean: I've been in bubbles before. On paper, this most definitely reads like one. In the real world, it feels like something else. My first bubble was the late '90s dot-com boom, which was a real hoot for quite a while: awesome launch parties for companies you'd never