That’s fair. I think the OP put it in a much more dismissive way than you did though.
If you’re building a product and it’s not working, pivoting in the direction of AI could definitely be rational—not because of the hype, or at least not only because of that (it doesn’t hurt). But because it could give you a better chance of building a more useful and differentiated product.
Implying that any entrepreneur who does this is just following the herd is pretty uncharitable imo. Again, it would be like saying that about people pivoting to web in the early 2000s or mobile in the 2010s. Not every trend is fake.
If you’re building a product and it’s not working, pivoting in the direction of AI could definitely be rational—not because of the hype, or at least not only because of that (it doesn’t hurt). But because it could give you a better chance of building a more useful and differentiated product.
Implying that any entrepreneur who does this is just following the herd is pretty uncharitable imo. Again, it would be like saying that about people pivoting to web in the early 2000s or mobile in the 2010s. Not every trend is fake.