My completely baseless theory is that there is an unbelievable amount of astroturfing happening in defense of this technology at a rate never seen before becaus

My completely baseless theory is that there is an unbelievable amount of astroturfing happening in defense of this technology at a rate never seen before because of how badly people with capital want this to work and how "close" the tech is to achieving that. If this is correct, then it's less of "people don't care" and more "the hype is louder than them." That said: I, too, am completely perplexed by people within the tech community using LLMs heavily in making software while, unironically, saying that they have to keep an eye on it since it might produce incorrect work.