The AI Mirage: Why Personal Intelligence Will Beat Artificial Intelligence — Onix

Every cycle in tech swings between centralization and decentralization. Cathedrals rise, but the bazaar always returns. Watch David's keynote on why Personal Intelligence™ is the future. Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed an unprecedented transformation in artificial intelligence. From ChatGPT’s record-breaking adoption to DeepSeek’s disruption of Western AI economics, from NVIDIA’s trillion-dollar valuation to OpenAI’s historic funding rounds, the industry has experienced what can only be described as a shockwave. But beneath this surface turbulence lies a deeper pattern—one that has repeated throughout the history of technology. Eric Raymond named this pattern in 1997. Every major technology wave follows the same rhythm: from open promise to closed control, from bazaar to cathedral. Each liberation seeds the next consolidation. With AI, we’re watching this pattern play out at warp speed. In just 30 months, we’ve gone from the democratization promise of ChatGPT to $100 billion f

Every cycle in tech swings between centralization and decentralization. Cathedrals rise, but the bazaar always returns. Watch David's keynote on why Personal Intelligence™ is the future. Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed an unprecedented transformation in artificial intelligence. From ChatGPT’s record-breaking adoption to DeepSeek’s disruption of Western AI economics, from NVIDIA’s trillion-dollar valuation to OpenAI’s historic funding rounds, the industry has experienced what can only be described as a shockwave. But beneath this surface turbulence lies a deeper pattern—one that has re