I want to believe you have given this some thought, but for someone with as long a sea log as yours, you seem to have forgotten what happened when we “gave it time to sort itself out” for other services that are now completely entrenched in our lives and have made them worse for it.

• apps for everything
• not raising more complaint about the erosion of our privacy by private corporations
• not defending open standards like PDF and now PDFs are a security and compatibility nightmare
• "hey, maybe subscription models can be applied to printer ink"
• etc, ad nauseum

AI itself is fine, and its been used for good (solving protein folding).

But AI in just about everything else is awful. It wastes energy and water. It is actively making people dumber. I’m fighting a losing battle at work with fools who wholesale believe AI answers on any question and others who literally vibe code.

If you truly believe ai is going to be better in the long run, you have not been paying attention to the last 30 years of technology becoming trash.