We Are Not Going to Agree on AI

On one hand, I know a developer producing 30,000 lines of code a month. On the other, I know a developer who says AI is stupid. Each swears by their stance and has evidence to back it up. One has a working product and the other has a broken one. The New York Times profiled Medvi and reported they're on track to make $1.8 billion this year. Clearly AI worked for them... if you ignore the alleged fraud for just a second. And while Microsoft now claims that at least 30% of their code is AI-generated, GitHub logged 89 incidents in 90 days (as of this writing). That doesn't exactly paint a bright picture of a technology firing on all cylinders. If you're sitting on the sidelines trying to decide whether AI works or not, you're not going to get a clean answer. But it's still the right question to be asking. I don't think we'll ever reach a consensus, because after all the hype, what we're left with is a capable tool. And apparently, that's not enough. For AI companies, it's supposed to be…