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The AI Bubble Is About to Pop — And That Might Be a Good Thing

by Axel Segebrecht Technology and Instructables

Let me tell you how the AI bubble ends. Not with a whimper, but with hundreds of billions of dollars in planned data centre capacity going up in smoke. Loads of companies going bust. And quite possibly, a proper economic wallop that takes a good chunk of the wider economy down with it.

Sounds dramatic? Maybe. But hear me out.

The Problem With Brute Force

All the big AI tools you’ve probably heard of — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — are what’s known as Large Language Models, or LLMs. Despite the fancy name, what they actually do is remarkably simple in concept: they predict what word (or chunk of text) comes next. They do this by having been trained on mind-boggling amounts of data, and the results are genuinely impressive. I use these tools daily, and I’ll be the first to admit they’re brilliant. I get more done, I can explore ideas faster, and it’s honestly quite fun.

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Build Your Own Home & Travel Router with a Raspberry Pi 5

by Axel Segebrecht Technology and Instructables

A complete guide to building a portable, self-contained router that serves as your main home router for trusted devices day-to-day, then unplugs and travels with you — providing Wi-Fi, mobile data failover, ad-blocking, encrypted networking, and a library of offline content, all from a device smaller than a paperback book.

This is the kind of practical project I talked about in Forget Climate Action — We Need Climate Resilience — building real tools that work when the usual infrastructure doesn’t.

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