Having lived through the dot-com mania — watching companies with no revenue and no viable product go public and soar to billions in market cap before crashing back to earth in a fiery heap. This sudden .ai price premium feels like déjà vu in the worst way. And look, I genuinely love tech. I recently tried out a personal AI assistant and honestly? It's pretty damn good at automating boring tasks and keeping my files organized. Will I use it for anything creative? Absolutely not. Some things should still require a human brain — if for no other reason than to maintain some dignity.

Ah, the dot-com era. Those were the days when Pets.com became a darling of Wall Street despite having a business model that made less sense than a screen door on a submarine. Investors were throwing money at anything with a ".com" suffix like it was burning a hole in their pockets, because frankly, it often was. Companies were valued not on revenue or even coherent business plans, but on how many buzzwords they could stuff into their pitch decks. Then came 2000, and the bottom fell out faster than you could say "we're pivoting to e-commerce." The Nasdaq lost 78% of its value. Millions lost their life savings. And yet, fast forward a few decades, and here we are watching ".ai" domains go for the price of a decent used car while companies with no revenue and no product race to slap "AI-powered" on everything like it's fairy dust.

Does this feel familiar? You bet your ass it does. The dot-com bubble was fueled by the promise of the internet changing everything — and it did, eventually. The current AI craze has that same breathless energy, just replace "disrupting" with "hallucinating." Every startup and their dog is rushing to stake their claim on the AI frontier, domain speculators are hoarding .ai domains like digital real estate tycoons, and here we are paying $200/year for what used to be a $12 gamble.

Will AI actually transform society? Probably. Was the internet overhyped in 1999? Absolutely — right before it actually transformed society. The lesson, of course, is that timing is everything. So by all means, dip your toes into this new tech pool. Just maybe don't invest your life savings in domain names you found "just for shits n” gigs." And as for me? I'll keep using my AI assistant to organize my files and automate the boring stuff. Creative work? That's what humans do best.

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