Or it could be that the time/effort required to craft a prompt and check the output is not worth it for most/all use cases, and thus after the initial excitement ChatGPT and friends gather dust much like blockchain and Apple Vision.
Similarly, I've been using Dall-E to add pictures to the books we read in class.
Compare this to retyping everything at a 4th grade reading level and then painstakingly searching Google for pictures (and usually ending up with mismatched pictures with varying artistic styles or watermarks).
I don't know that we will have true artificial intelligence soon a lá I Robot, but I feel nervous and optimistic about what's to come either way.
By the way, call me crazy but I think the Apple Vision thing is going to be a game changer for business and consumers.
To a large extent, it has demonstrated to me that wading through stack overflow or blog posts or canonical documentation to figure out how to do some technical thing was actually a way worse workflow than I thought it was. But searching "what to do in my town this weekend" or "what are the best books about xyz" remains the best workflow.
The only reason people don't see this is because they weren't around back then. It's not going to be different this time.
There are people who've been around who think it's going to be different this time.
Look it's fine if you don't. Maybe you'll be right and they'll be wrong but this "anyone who disagrees is ignorant" rhetoric is uncalled for. You shouldn't need to result to ad hominems.
I see a major issue for people entering the industry in a decade because ChatGPT/Copilot I can get 10 mediocre answers and verify them in the time it takes a junior eng to respond to PR comments.
I am keeping up with the technology, though, to see how it evolves.