I saw a tweet that said:

"Im really fkin worried we're all building the same thing"

Everyone has been building a harness/sandbox the last 6 months. Ive seen dozens and dozens shared in discords.

Even companies are totally stuck focused on the same paradigms.

The previous iteration of this was RAG/Chat interfaces. See PewDiePie's project. Last month it was briefly everyone building the same classifier.

Peter Thiel, gave a lecture about this same phenomenon 15 years ago likely because he observed the same things going on during other hype cycles. Everyone building the same things. Its called something like "Dont build the obvious thing"

This is why Im moving towards hardware for personal projects, it forces me to be much more creative and think outside the "How can I make something AI adjacent/powered" trap thats so easy to fall into in pure software right now.