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Charles Stross · 23 Jul 2026

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  1. I think once the AI bubble pops we're going to see a wave of private equity leveraged mergers among cash-poor tech sector firms. Who will then fail to build anything new, or even hold onto their users, because they've forgotten how to build products customers want and *we've already got enough*.

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