I don't think GenAI is going to fail to get off the start line, because it has done just that. It has adoption that might not be every person in the world, but

I don't think GenAI is going to fail to get off the start line, because it has done just that. It has adoption that might not be every person in the world, but the depth and breadth and variety of users is hard to ignore. Crypto wallets and getting up and running is the failure for most crypto. Yes, there have been improvements to that. LLM's that took a chat interface went as universal as they could - just a computer anyone can talk to. One issue with looking at HuggingFace and expecting maturity in 10-12 months is I'm not sure what can be compared as an equal in that number of months in other technologies. I agree it's far from perfect, but also it seems to be improving. LLM's are just one kind of GenAI as you have pointed out. The AI you were working with before all of this remains relevant. There's more to this than wanting a prompt to do everything magically. Having to "fine tune" and get each piece working may be the work for a while, and still be usable and beneficial. Does it need to evolve and get better? It is. With each passing month are more and more models running on more accessible hardware? It is. Are people quietly doing a lot with it and not sharing it yet? Sure feels like it.