> I find the use of the word intelligence to be a bit of a misnomer. Is something intelligent if all its doing is pattern matching? Is the evolution that led to owl butterflies appearing like an owl intelligent? Im not sure.

Is a random number generator intelligent? I don't think people perceive or understand intelligence equally. I don't think we have an answer to what exactly is intelligence or how to create it.

> LLMs are really dividing the community at the moment and its exhausting to keep up with what I (as a dev) should be doing to stay sharp

You could try at your comfortable pace. I only started using agents very recently. The dangerous thing is to go to extremes (all in on AI or completely refusing the tech)