This is exactly my position. Landscape-changing technology is impossible to get away from, because it follows you. It's like a local business owner in 1998 telling me they didn't care about the stupid "internet" thing, and then the internet blew away their business within 10 years. Similar story with the PC: folks didn't get the option to just "opt out" of a digital office because they liked typewriters and paper. Cell phones were this way also, and while many people post about how they hate their phones and needs to quit using it so much, pretty much everyone admits you can't live in society without one because they have pervaded so many interactions.

So that's how I think AI will be seen in 20 years: like the PC, the internet, and mobile phones. Tech that shapes society, for better or worse.

100%, even if models stopped advancing today, there's already enough utility that just needs to be constrained by traditional software. It's not going away; it's going to change our interfaces completely, and change how services interface with each other, how they're designed, and change the pace at which software evolves.

This is a tipping point and most anti-AI advocates don't understand that other software developers who keep telling them to reevaluate their positioned are often just trying to make sure no one is left behind.