Totally. The combination of "we're taking your work to build your replacement and we can't stop" from Dario and Sam, to AI being non-consentually shoved into every app surface by Microsoft and Google - I was anti-AI for a long time.

What changed it? Actually spending a weekend with Claude Code building personal projects I had wanted to for the last 2 years, which also makes it obvious that we can solve sustainability issues using this tech.

Also seeing the open models reach the frontier and knowing the above ass-hats aren't going to end up with a monopoly helps a lot too.