Beyond the Hype: Hitting AI Saturation
From running local LLMs to generating over 10,000 images in ComfyUI, I went deep down the AI rabbit hole. But as the internet floods with cheap filters and action figure trends, the novelty has worn off. Here is why I’ve hit AI saturation, and why moving past the hype is the best thing that could happen to the technology.
We all remember the ChatGPT launch because it felt like a collective shift in reality. As an early adopter, I didn’t just watch from the sidelines. I jumped straight into the machine room.
I cycled through every major LLM including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, but web interfaces quickly felt too limiting. I wanted full control, so soon I was running local LLMs on my PC via LM Studio. When the image boom hit, I bypassed the basic prompt tools, set up ComfyUI, trained my own custom LoRA models, and generated well over 10,000 images.
And that is exactly why I’ve hit a wall.
Lately, my feeds have been flooded with mainstream AI trends. Turn yourself into a 90s yearbook photo or turn yourself into a plastic action figure. I look at it and feel completely saturated. When you’ve spent months tweaking local weights, the novelty wears off. The internet has become cluttered with synthetic noise, and these superficial filters have started to feel incredibly dull.
But this doesn't mean AI is a passing fad. If used correctly, it is one of the most powerful tools ever created. Once you strip away the gimmicks, the real utility appears. Today, AI is my ultimate co-pilot and I am actually using it to teach myself how to code, as an example.
However, using it deeply means knowing its flaws. We’ve all seen the machine hallucinate and completely lose its mind. One minute you’re having a logical session, and the next, the AI confidently invents broken code or spirals into absolute nonsense. It’s a stark reminder that you’re dealing with a statistical guessing machine, not a conscious mind. Trust it blindly, and it will lead you off a cliff.
We are finally moving past the hype wave, and that is a good thing. The era of being amazed by a chatbot or an AI action figure is over. The future of AI isn't about the flashiest trend on your feed. It is about the quiet, practical ways we use it behind the scenes to learn, build, and solve real problems.
I’m done with the gimmicks. But I’m just getting started with the tool.