Every corporation I have interfaced with over the last few months has demonstrated massively epic levels of FOMO over AI. And yet, when I ask them how they are

Every corporation I have interfaced with over the last few months has demonstrated massively epic levels of FOMO over AI. And yet, when I ask them how they are tracking AI’s effectiveness, especially with regard to degrading skill sets, lowered creativity/effectiveness in solutions to complex/edge problems, slowed dev velocity, and increasing levels of needless code complexity (with associated ballooning of LoC) and gratuitous hallucinations breeding bugs like meal worm farms, all I get are crickets. Or worse, deer-in-the-headlight looks. They’re all wildly unaware of the downsides that are slowly being confirmed by science. Frankly, I feel that I am lucky that I’ve chosen a sabbatical to deal with my parent’s EoL issues. The chance that this will extend into the popping of the AI bubble appears to be non-trivial. By the time I start looking in earnest again, AI might not be a critical employment benchmark anymore. Or one of my projects will become profitable and I won’t have to deal with all that bullshite.