Slang & Culture
Doom Loop (AI context)
Borrowed from an older financial and urban-planning metaphor (downtown office vacancies triggering further economic decline); AI commentators apply it loosely to either an AI coding agent stuck repeating a failed fix, or broader fears of a self-reinforcing AI economic bubble or job-loss spiral.
Origin · no single documented coiner
No single AI-specific coining — this is a pre-existing metaphor being borrowed, and usage is inconsistent across sources. Presented here as a borrowed term, not an AI-native one.
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