AI is making us dumber — the tech bubble's hidden cost

For years, engineers built systems that let humans do more with less — AI-powered tools that predicted outcomes, optimized decisions, and saved time. But now the bubble is bursting, and we're learning: the tools optimized us out of the system.\n\nThis is the new reality: an AI-powered tool recommends the perfect answer to a problem — but if the tool is wrong, no human knows how to fix it. A chatbot handles customer support — but if the chatbot fails, it takes hours to find a human who still remembers how to handle the issue. The result: we're losing the ability to handle problems ourselves — we're becoming the humans-in-the-loop whose only role is to babysit the AI.\n\nWhy this matters for us: this is how tech bubbles collapse — by making the people they were supposed to empower less capable, not more. The next wave of tech-driven unemployment won't just be jobs lost — it'll be skills lost.