Holdouts feel everything is doomed.

Adopters feel the future is brighter than ever.

Article author is excited. I am too.

I exist outside your dichotomy.

I feel like the future is bright precisely because AI sucks so bad while also lowering the bar.

It made people not take software and software engineers for granted. Public perception of software has also finally matured. Boomers and tech CEOs fell into a tarpit that harshly exposes their stupidity while laypeople now feel like they can change the system.

This is all exciting in the best ways. My usage of AI at work and for personal projects goes as far as whatever the AI summary is on google. That's more than enough for me to get enough of a productivity boost on par with those who embarrassingly thrust themselves balls deep and refuse to pull out. Not everyone has to push the "I'm feeling lucky" button to get the same work done at the same pace.