#burnout

ThePrimeagen argues that AI-driven FOMO — the fear that not "token maxing" today means falling permanently behind — is structurally similar to past hype cycles (React server components, early ChatGPT 3.5) where the specific skills people rushed to learn turned out not to matter a year later. He shares his own history of anxiety-driven overwork while starting a company, and reads from George Hotz's "I love LLMs, I hate hype" on companies profiting from users' fear of being left behind.