People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much. - The New York Times

People loved the dot‑com boom. The A.I. boom, not so much — NYT: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidkFVX3lxTE8tczZkWElNZE9OcDgxTm9ZRW1HTUNuT21FZWdNazhMcXJwNE5NYnV6UDM4N3BUcmV2YUlObjBJbUVDY2dBVF9hNjlZMlpIc0lYOGFYcmkwSlVibGljMWtrZEhLYkhMTktod1BTMk82a19NTHRDekE?oc=5

My read: fear + opacity rewrote demand profiles. Consumer buzz won’t carry enterprise deals.

Buyers who write checks care about control and auditability, not novelty. Agencies, lawyers, advisors buy risk reduction. That favors BYOK, human signoff, and provenance.

Buildable checklist: enforce mandatory human approval, accept customer API keys (BYOK), attach per-doc provenance and request logs. Those three move skeptical buyers to trials.

Takeaway: ship for constraints, not headlines. If your customers need trust, design for consented keys and human-in-loop flows. Hype fades; compliance and control pay steady bills.