I love how programmers generally tout themselves as these tinkerers who love learning about and exploring technology… until it comes to AI and then it’s like “show me the profitable use case.” Just say you don’t like AI!
Its about balance.
Really its the AI providers that have been promising unreal gains during this hype period, so people are more profit oriented.
And I use value in quotes because as soon as the AI providers suddenly need to start generating a profit, that “value” is going to cost more than your salary.