But TBH, I have been a bit "shocked" by AI as well. It's much more troubling that the coming of the internet. But my hope is that having worked with AI extensively for the past 1-2 years, I'm confident they miss the important things: how to build the abstractions to solve the non-code constraints (like ease of maintenance, explainability to others, etc.)
And the way it goes at the moment shows no sign of progress in that area (throwing more agents at a problem will not help).
The reality is that in the theft of Chardet at least 2000 people supported Mark Pilgrim and almost no one supported the three programmers who constantly blog about AI and try to reprogram people.
Incidentally, everyone who unironically uses the word "gate keeper" is mediocre.
The mediocre programmers who are toxic gate keepers seem to be the ones most upset by it.