It reminds me most of the release of the first iPhone - very flashy, very overhyped, adds a bit of convenience to people's lives but also likely to measurably damage people's brains in the long run.

~80% of the usage patterns i see these days falsely assume that LLMs can handle their own quality control and are optimizing for appearance, potential or demo-worthiness rather than hardcore usefulness. Gas town is not an outlier here.

When the internet and electricity were ~3 years old people were already using it for stuff that was working and obviously world changing rather than as demos of potential.

That 20% of usage patterns that work now arent going away but the other 80% are going to be seen as blockchainesque hype in 5 or 10 years.