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I don't know how you can claim it's all vapour ware. Two years ago, I couldn't just roughly describe my backlog and then have the code fixed. I had to type it

I don't know how you can claim it's all vapour ware. Two years ago, I couldn't just roughly describe my backlog and then have the code fixed. I had to type it out myself, run it, look at logs, fix toolchain issues, and so on. It was tedious. Or I could get a junior to do it. Now can get these things done quite fast, without concentrating nearly as hard. Clearly, it isn't vapour. It delivers something. That something we have yet to figure out the best way to use, but there's definitely something there that works. I get the feeling a lot of people are frustrated because the little gains are lost in organisational chaos, rather than the tools not working.

mihaelm 2mo ago
On your last point, I think it has a lot to do with how it's introduced in organizations. If everyone just goes hog wild with it, enamored with their newfound productivity, not only will the little gains be lost, I'd argue all the generated noise will be a net negative. And people will hate that. That's the result of AI adoption in a company being people just getting a subscription and doing their own thing, instead of systematically introducing and finding a common ground; a trivial example of that would be open source projects increasingly adopting LLM policies to get everyone on the same page.