@jbhall56 @mttaggart allow me to answer what I presume is a rhetorical question with an article I find very persuasive:

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm

> I first thought that these were just classic cases of tech bubble enthusiasm [... but] the believers in the “AI” bubble sound very different from those of prior bubbles [...] This specific blend of awe, disbelief, and dread all sound like the words of a victim of a mentalist scam artist—psychics