Ask HN: Is anyone else burnt out on AI?

Every week there’s several new things, most examples are cherry picked, benchmarks are blown out etc.

I run a software company that has not added any AI features, mostly because the usefulness seems to fall below the bar for value that most of our features try to maintain.

I use ChatGPT personally for random searches and Cursor + whatever model is deemed best at the time but even with that it takes a lot of work to get something valuable out of it in day to day.

I feel like I’m losing my mind when I see startups posting 10m ARR numbers in just 6 months or whatever.

I’m hearing from VC’s churn is 15-30% in many of these companies and they’re far from profitable but the growth is just wild.

Do I succumb and just add yet another text generation that maps to an object like fill-in-the-blank app of the week?

It feels disingenuous but even companies I know and respect are adding questionable “agent” features that rarely work.

Anyway, how are you feeling?

I think there are situations where AI as it currently exists is absolutely a value add, but often it does seem like it's been shoehorned into an existing product just to ride the latest trend.

Frankly, as a "user", not a potential employee, I don't give much of a fuck about anything more than what I can do with the thing right now. (Which is quite a bit in fact.)

Just relax and realize it's mostly FOMO: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/ibm_ai_investments/