When the AI Revolution Gets Boring, What Happens?

The AI hype bubble appears to be reaching its peak as the technology transitions from revolutionary tool to everyday utility, much like calculators once did. A teenager's journey from using ChatGPT to write essays in 2023 to abandoning it by 2025 illustrates this shift—she returned to writing her own work because AI-generated content became predictably uniform and recognizable. As AI loses its "magical" status and becomes mundane infrastructure, it paradoxically becomes more genuinely useful rather than just hyped.