Free love was the 60's and 70's followed by the sex, drugs and rock n' roll 80's. Once AIDS and drug addiction hit, the party was over.
I think your analogy is still accurate, I'm just wondering when the AIDS, the drug overdoses and addiction phase of AI will finally hit.
We need to plateau I think and plateau hard. Currently that's not happening because Anthropic is clearly making better and better SOTA models.
Just my 2c
We haven't even seen what these models are fully capable of, and I'm not talking about agentic engineering here, just in general.