AI Skeptic to AI Pragmatist

A few months ago I was an AI skeptic. I was concerned that AI was similar to Blockchain, in that it was mostly hype, with little practical application outside of a few niche use cases. I still think AI is overhyped, but having intentionally used LLMs and AI agents to help build software, I have moved from skeptic to pragmatist. I still don’t know that AI is “good” in any objective sense. It…