As soon as every big corp started stuffing their UIs with AI buttons, we all knew it was investors pushing for AI use to go sky high without a care for the nuances of the current state of AI. The reality is that AI usage isn't as impactful as it was promised. Where is the productivity increase in being able to generate a picture via some prompt? When deep research could contain hallucinated text or references, where is the productivity increase? It is undeniable that these tools have uses but when you look at all the investment made into this tech, the outcomes are not great.
Example: new Yahoo! Mail AI summaries helpfully added to the top of each mail. Thanks, now I get to read each email twice! With the original text now placed in a variable location on the screen.
Unfortunately it's the coders who are most excited to put themselves out of business with incredible code-generation facilities. The techies that remain employed will be the feature vibers with 6-figure salaries supplied by the efforts of the now-unemployed programmers. The cycle will thus continue.
