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325: Indie Hackers’ Myopic View of AI
The Bootstrapped Founder
Building AI Tools Gold Rush
There is a prevalent trend of AI tools being developed rapidly within the indie hacker community, presenting an analogy of a gold rush where everyone is trying to sell tools to aspiring AI creators. This phenomenon is likened to a Ponzi scheme due to tools being created by AI founders who are slightly more advanced. The community highlights concerns about the quality and authenticity of AI courses being released by individuals with limited expertise in AI. Despite the oversaturation and hype around AI on social media platforms, it raises questions about the true essence and integrity of the artificial intelligence landscape.
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Everyone is building AI tools. And from within the indie hacker community right now, this looks like a massive gold rush where everybody is trying to peddle shovels to the ambitious miners looking for AI gold. It feels like almost a Ponzi scheme like quality of just how tools for AI founders are being built by other AI founders that are a couple months ahead. Courses are being released on AI topics by people who just barely scratch the surface of their own exploration of AI. And from inside a community that is usually very protective of its members, this feels like it's a problem. So let's talk about it today. This episode is sponsored by aqui.com, not an AI company by the way, more on that later. Maybe it's an overblown hype that we perceive here with this whole topic of artificial intelligence, but it feels like there's something going on. Whenever I go to Twitter, whenever I go on any social media site or even forums and news pages, AI is so prevalent. It appears like an outsized interest in a niche topic at this point.
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