I think the point is that AI was here 40 years ago [1].

LLMs/RAGs/Transformers are the newish thing that's here to stay.

I've seen my colleagues vocabulary regress from "training transformers" to just "using AI", without clarifying if are using claude or actually building a network. I was recently told that no one says "vibe coding" any more (now it "agentic AI", I was told). My colleague who does ML research was told he was the only one at his workplace that wasn't doing AI.

So the problem isn't the technology (a lot of the technology is great), it's that the discussion around it has been dumbed down by hype.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-04-rescan