I think 90% of the hype could be understood if you look at things from a non-coder's perspective. All of this tooling helps non-engineers with building AI appli

I think 90% of the hype could be understood if you look at things from a non-coder's perspective. All of this tooling helps non-engineers with building AI applications, because they don't know how to code. They don't know how to write a simple function to call a REST API, store the results in an database, etc. etc. So they need this tooling. There's also the fact that humans love to abstract things, even when the thing they're trying to abstract already does the job fairly well (see: Kubernetes, GraphQL)