Agreed. It isn’t like crypto where the proponents proclaimed some use case that would prove value always on the verge of arriving. AI is useful right now. People are using these tools now and enjoying them.
Unfortunately, people enjoying a thing and thinking that it works well doesn't actually mean much on its own.
But, more than that I suspect that AI is making more people realize that they don't need to write everything themselves, but they never needed to to begin with, and they'd be better off to do the code reuse thing in a different way.
I am /hoping/ that AI will improve, to the point that I can use it like Google or Wikipedia (that is, have some trust in what's being produced)
I don't actually know anyone using AI right now. I know one person on Bluesky has found it helpful for prototyping things (and I'm kind of jealous of him because he's found how to get AI to "work" for him).
Oh, I've also seen people pasting AI results into serious discussions to try and prove the experts wrong, but only to discover that the AI has produced flawed responses.
I believe you, but this to me is a wild claim.
Presuming you are logged onto a google account, log on to Gemini 2.5 then ask it “create a go program that connects one thread to a usb device and another thread to generate a GUI”. The results might surprise you.
Personally i have still yet to find LLMs useful at all with programming.