I think this is being overly complimenting to AI. I think the most obvious reason is that for almost all business use cases its not very helpful. All these initiatives have the same problem. Staff asking 'how can this actually help me,' because they can't get it to help them other than polishing emails, polishing code, and writing summaries which is not what most people's jobs are. Then you have to proofread all of this because AI makes a lot of mistakes and poor assumptions, on top of hallucinations.

I dont think Joe and Jane worker are purposely not using to protect their jobs, everyone wants ease at work, its just these LLM-based AI's dont offer much outside of some use cases. AI is vastly over-hyped and now we're in the part of the hype cycle where people are more comfortable saying to power, "This thing you love and think will raise your stock price is actually pretty terrible for almost all the things you said it would help with."

AI has its place, but its not some kind of universal mind that will change everything and be applicable in significant and fundamentally changing ways outside of some narrow use cases.

I'm on week 3 of making a video game (something I've never done before) with Claude/Chat and once I got past the 'tutorial level' design, these tools really struggle. I think even where an LLM would naturally be successful (structured logical languages), its still very underwhelming. I think we're just seeing people push back on hype and feeling empowered to say "This weird text autogenerator isn't helping me."