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The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom

Ed Zitron built a massive following by saying what tech journalists won't: that generative AI is an unsustainable bubble propped up by hype and bad math.

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Parker Molloy
Sep 22, 2025
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Ed Zitron has a theory about why everything in tech feels broken.

From Las Vegas, Zitron runs a PR firm while writing some of the sharpest criticism of Silicon Valley you'll find anywhere. His newsletter, Where's Your Ed At, started with 300 readers and has exploded into a must-read for anyone trying to understand why Google search got worse, why social …

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