[prewett]

I wonder if 3D printing is a good analogy. The promise was "you can print anything you want!" From my observation, the reality is that you can 3D print cheap plastic crap that looks like voxel rendering made manifest. This turns out to be handy in a lot of situations, like making custom jigs for something, but you're not going to be 3D printing custom jewelry, or custom furniture. Sure, you hear stories about how SpaceX is 3D printing rocket engines, but you can't afford a machine like that, and even if you could, you won't be printing custom jewelry with it.

So, sure, some people are going to be using AI to create professional software, but they aren't going to tell you about all the engines that blew up along the way, and who knows which ones are going to blow up in the future. But custom utility software might get a whole lot more common.