Tech bubble Memes

Remember when everyone was like "AI is coming for our jobs!" and we were all peeking through the blinds, nervously watching the AI bubble inflate? Well, now it's deflating faster than my motivation after a 3-hour estimation meeting. That smug little smile says it all. We've survived another tech apocalypse, folks. Just like we did with blockchain, NFTs, and whatever the metaverse was supposed to be. Turns out writing if-else statements for a living is still a viable career path after all.

The eternal tech industry promise: "AGI is just around the corner! Just need another $20 trillion and we're golden!" Meanwhile, the same AI still can't figure out if there's a bicycle in a CAPTCHA. Silicon Valley VCs keep throwing money into the void like it's a competitive sport, convinced that if they burn enough cash, sentient machines will rise from the ashes. Spoiler alert: your neural network is basically just spicy autocomplete with better PR.

The tech industry's eternal optimism in a nutshell! Companies burning through billions in pursuit of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) with that "we're just one funding round away" energy. It's like watching someone with $5 in their bank account plan their yacht purchase. For context, AGI is the holy grail of AI - machines with human-level intelligence across all tasks - and apparently, we're juuuust $20 trillion short! That's basically pocket change if you check between your sofa cushions, right?

Oh. My. God. The AUDACITY of these AI companies claiming they've built the "world's smartest AI model" when it's LITERALLY just a glorified search engine with a political obsession! 😱 Trained on 200k GPUs? Postgraduate intelligence? PLEASE! The second you peek under the hood, it's just frantically searching for controversial keywords like some conspiracy-addicted teenager who discovered Twitter for the first time. The wide-eyed cat is ALL OF US when we realize these "revolutionary" AI systems that cost BILLIONS to develop are basically just fancy if-statements with a political agenda. I'm DYING! 💀

Remember that stable software career you were planning? Yeah, that's getting brutally stabbed by a perfect storm of layoffs and economic uncertainty while AI hype watches from the doorway with a sinister grin. Meanwhile, your dreams of becoming the next tech rockstar are standing outside, blissfully unaware they're about to be murdered too. The tech industry's version of a slasher film where your career aspirations are the unsuspecting teenagers. Pro tip: Maybe learn to sharpen knives as a backup skill? At least those can't be automated... yet.

The tech industry in a single image. Massive crowds fighting to post LinkedIn updates about how they're "leveraging agentic AI solutions" while VCs throw money at anyone who mentions the buzzword. Meanwhile, a handful of folks actually discuss job displacement risks, and even fewer build anything useful. And that lonely stick figure trying to generate actual value? That's the junior dev who just wanted to automate their unit tests but got pulled into an "AI transformation initiative." The hype-to-value ratio remains gloriously consistent across every tech wave I've survived since the dot-com bubble.

The tech industry's attention span in one image. Remember when everyone was frantically building metaverse platforms? Yeah, me neither. Now it's all AI this, AI that, while metaverse sits in the corner wondering where all its venture capital went. The tech world just ghosted an entire digital universe for a chatbot that occasionally hallucinates facts about Napoleon. Silicon Valley relationships are more fickle than npm dependencies.

The classic startup founder strategy: drop buzzwords like "AI" and "ML" while looking suspiciously like a baby in a tuxedo threatening investors. Nothing says "I'm totally qualified to run a tech company" like combining artificial intelligence jargon with mild extortion! The tiny suit really sells the "I've definitely completed multiple successful exits" vibe. VC funding secured in 3... 2... 1...

The secret to tech wealth in 2025? Just slap "AI" on literally anything! Remember when we called them "scripts" and "automation"? Now they're "autonomous agents" with a 500% markup. Next week I'll be renaming my if-statements to "neural decision nodes" and retiring to my private island. The venture capital money practically throws itself at you!

Oh god, this is brilliant. Just imagine all those LinkedIn posts now: "Our new cocaine-powered chatbot will revolutionize customer service!" or "Top 10 ways cocaine will disrupt your industry!" The tech hype cycle and the actual cocaine cycle have the same phases: initial euphoria, inflated expectations, crushing disappointment, and somehow still costing you all your money. The only difference is one crashes after 20 minutes and the other after your next funding round.