Definitely a hype wave, and we've seen these things come and go before. Crypto, NFTs, Blockchain, Virtual Assistants, Autonomous Vehicles, Wearables, Big Data, VR/AR, 3D TV. In five years, we'll be able to add LLMs/AI to the list.

I'm sure if we look, we can find a five year old HN post that starts out: "My work is already massively transformed via crypto. Pretty much everything I do starts with an interaction with a blockchain."