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Daniel wrote in with a question about the Gartner hype cycle and where AI actually sits on it. His argument: the technology predates the hype by sixty years, so what changed wasn't the field's existence — it was a dramatic jump in capability. This episode digs into that framing: why the hype cycle fits awkwardly, what normalization looks like when it arrives, and why the plateau of productivity might be a neighborhood rather than a destination. Along the way: weather forecasting, machine translation, Apple's deliberately mundane feature pitch, and why the trough of disillusionment may be a trough of wrappers rather than a collapse of capability. Episode #302950 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/302950