Echoes of the AI Winter

Echoes of the AI Winter Publish date: Feb 1, 2026 Last updated: Feb 1, 2026 I’ve been a systems programmer for most of my career and embraced several development paradigms. As a systems and backend focused developer, my exposure to AI systems has been small, but I worked with symbolic programming languages, rules based systems and graph databases. I have seen a lot of trends in technology, with the abundant availability of venture capital amplifying trends that promise maximum disruption and, consequently, profit. It may be educational to have a look at the first commercial AI hype cycle, which occurred in the 1980s.

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