A company valued at $4+ trillion based on the recent AI hype alone is touting the benefits of using said AI, and we're supposed to take this shit for granted.

I'm wondering what the Alphabet employees still commenting on this forum have to say about it? I guess for the right comps they can keep their mouths shut no matter the high level of idiocy involved.

There is hype, but there are also real tangible wins as well. Analyzing code for bugs is something that works very well. We use it for helping us revert changes that lead to a flaking test and it's dramatically faster than previous techniques. It's great at suggesting duplicate bug reports. It's amazing at scaling an API migration throughout a codebase. It's great at prototyping an idea before you decide to do it properly.

There are many things it's not good at (eg design and architecture), but that doesn't invalidate the things it is good at. Everyone is learning how to best use it and there are growing pains. Ignore the hype and try to find the common patterns in what people say.