> ai code dev has enabled people to make tools for themselves that they didn't have before.

...that sounds pretty worthless tbh. The promise of AI wasn't that you can bang out your own little half baked duolingo clone. It was that every engineer was supposed to become hundreds or thousands of percent more productive. The assumption being that things generally would therefore get noticeably better.

We're seeing hundreds of percent more commits. We're not seeing that translate to any real world improvement of anything. That's the problem.

Call me "ignorant" if you want, but back it up by showing what all this "AI productivity" has actually accomplished in real economic terms. Not vaporware.