This has been my experience as well, only the company I work for has mandated that we must use AI tools everyday (regardless of whether we want/need them) and is actively tracking our usage to make sure we comply. My productivity has plummeted. The tool we use (Cursor) requires so much hand-holding that it's like having a student dev with me at all times... only a real student would actually absorb information and learn over time, unlike this glorified Markov Chain. If I had a human junior dev, they could be a productive and semi-competent coder in 6 months. But 6 months from now, the LLM is still going to be making all of the same mistakes it is now. It's gotten to the point where I ask the LLM to solve a problem for me just so that I can hit the required usage metrics, but completely ignore its output. And it makes me die a little bit inside every time I consider how much water/energy I'm wasting for literally zero benefit.

People cheering for this have no idea of the consequence of their copyright-maximalist position. If using images, text, etc to train a model is copyright infringement then there will NO open models because open source model creators could not possibly obtain all of the licensing for every piece of written or visual media in the Common Crawl dataset, which is what most of these things are trained on. As it stands now, corporations don't have a monopoly on AI specifically because copyright doesn't apply to AI training. Everyone has access to Common Crawl and the other large, public, datasets made from crawling the public Internet and so anyone can train a model on their own without worrying about obtaining billions of different licenses from every single individual who has ever written a word or drawn a picture. If there is a ruling that training violates copyright then the only entities that could possibly afford to train LLMs or diffusion models are companies that own a large amount of copyrighted materials. Sure, one company will lose a lot of money and/or be destroyed, but the legal president would be set so that it is impossible for anyone that doesn't have billions of dollars to train AI. People are shortsightedly seeing this as a victory for artists or some other nonsense. It's not. This is a fight where large copyright holders (Disney and other large publishing companies) want to completely own the ability to train AI because they own most of the large stores of copyrighted material. If the copyright holders win this the the open source training material, like Common Crawl, would be completely unusable to train models in the US/the West because any person who has ever posted anything to the Internet in the last 25 years could simply sue for copyright infringement.

Is it imposter syndrome, or simply an imposter?

Who will actually wake up, though?

Sorry, that wasn't meant to sound so accusatory. I guess I (and probably a lot of other downvoters) are just very frustrated because your assumption doesn't hold true, at least for Germany. I'm very envious of the Internet infrastructure that has been built in Latvia and Romania, for example. I would like to see the same here, but the government already considers 50 MBit DSL to be progressive.

My son uses his school provided chronebook to do the shit he wouldn’t do on computers that I administer …. Their “threat” model varies wildly from ours.

Yeah, but they only industrialised very recently