The polarity is amusing. 🐥

It’s funny. I’ve been watching the gen AI space for a couple of years now. I’ve dabbled with a dozen apps, built a few integrations using APIs for work, and experimented with various tools to try to improve my coding or project management workflows. I also quietly spent a year building and refining an AI-powered interactive chatbot for Twitch that does a bunch of context preprocessing.

Where am I going with this? Well… amid all this casual exploration, I’ve also gotten myself pretty deep into the social media algorithms around AI and have witnessed a sea of arguments about it. I’m not going to get into the anti-AI folks right now, but even within AI enthusiast circles, there seem to be some pretty polarized opinions.

Right now, specifically, I’ve noticed a funny dichotomy in the “coding with AI” space: one group saying they haven’t had any success getting AI coding tools to work and that it just creates more mess than useful code, and another group saying they’ve basically become project managers to a handful of AI agents and are absolutely crushing it.

I think it’s likely that a mix of both is true, and that there are probably a lot of folks who either haven’t tried recently enough to see meaningful improvements (because even six months ago it was much worse).

Anyway, I was just finding this funny today. 🦆