As soon as every big corp started stuffing their UIs with AI buttons, we all knew it was investors pushing for AI use to go sky high without a care for the nuances of the current state of AI. The reality is that AI usage isn't as impactful as it was promised. Where is the productivity increase in being able to generate a picture via some prompt? When deep research could contain hallucinated text or references, where is the productivity increase? It is undeniable that these tools have uses but when you look at all the investment made into this tech, the outcomes are not great.
Example: new Yahoo! Mail AI summaries helpfully added to the top of each mail. Thanks, now I get to read each email twice! With the original text now placed in a variable location on the screen.
Unfortunately it's the coders who are most excited to put themselves out of business with incredible code-generation facilities. The techies that remain employed will be the feature vibers with 6-figure salaries supplied by the efforts of the now-unemployed programmers. The cycle will thus continue.
In comes Wanderfugl. A tool for traveling that I will never need, where just trying to figure out what it does used more time than I wanted to spend on it. Now with AI, there will be several shiny new travel apps like Wanderfugl for you to learn and choose from literally every time you go on another vacation.
Wanderfugl may be wonderful, and an achievement. But the reaction of this Seattleite is "What's the point anymore?" This is why I am uninterested in the AI coding trend. It's just a part of a lot of new stuff I don't need.