I'm not sure I understand your question.

Can you explain what you mean? It seems like you're making some kind of emotional appeal, but for it to make sense I'd have to be focusing on the AI more. Not less.

Can you please explain to me what is fun about it?

No, I'm not being facetious. Not deliberately anyway. I genuinely cannot fathom what is fun about competing over which is the best language, and a list like this one just makes it more absurd.
If a person is arguing for using javascript to access an SQLdb, for example, I might simply be confused why they're very obviously trying to use the wrong tool for the job.

What is the point of comparing languages as if they're sports teams?

I have never understood this. It seems like the most irrelevant thing.

Legit reminds me of soda ads trying to vilify 'flavorless' water.

"Designing an algorithm for lockin" when you've decided that you only want customers who aren't capable of understanding your product but think it's important for vague unstated reasons... does seem somewhat counterproductive at the very least.

Before that, people used to write "for media".

Based on your observation though, I now see this as techbros discovering that demographics are an established method of reducing populations for ease of analysis, and predictably confusing the map for the territory.

Absolutely. It's one of the major reasons I think they (and other plans like theirs) will fail, with one of the others being that they think they can just tell people to implement whatever they imagine and it will get done... often despite the thing being contradictory in function or an unsustainable, tautological assertion of a demagogue's beliefs.

They see the world largely through a narrative lens as far as I can tell. Function is someone else's problem, and they reserve the right to get mad and yell if their imaginings aren't made real, etc.

Can you explain how that's relevant?

It seems like you're fixated on the use or lack of use of AI, as opposed to the fact that a lawyer trusted a 3rd party service that is known for lacking accuracy and then presented citations that do not exist.

Ask yourself... what would this look like if AI wasn't involved. Would a lawyer be liable if they just made up a citation...? What about several? What about in an environment where a number of them had done it recently, and therefore there was a standing warning against doing it again?

It sort of doesn't matter whether you're in the majority or not... Your use case is your use case and a neutral tool would support that.

The difference in task and rationale is important, and trying to delegitimse complex work just so they can justify the idea that their product is good... well maybe it really does have the feel of being so out of touch with the lives of working folks that they might genuinely might believe they're doing everyone a favor by taking away that mean mildly negative feedback and emotionally difficult potential for failure. It also comes across like they have no context for what work looks like.

The current LLM push feels a lot like it is made and driven entirely by people whose contribution to technical tasks is making promises they don't actually understand.

This person sees the world via a jira board, with discrete tasks that have a completion percentage.

Not a real one though, he's never seen a real project timeline. Maybe he's played some XCOM or Civ.

same, bud. absolutely same.

How can I put this.

Sometimes when people ask rhetorical questions it's because they are pretty sure that there's no way to fix the problem they've highlighted, and they're doubtful anyone has a solution that wont just push the problem back.

If I'm complaining about anything, it's that I'll have to explain to someone in medicine that they gave away all that confidential patient data because they trusted a sales guy. Again.

oh lordy

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Obligatory reference to Arthur C Clarke's 9 billion Names of God.

Ok so... one of these might exist. But the desktop is at least 15 meters long and the laser is 0.3 PW. The main body of the system is a tube of plasma, so enjoy keeping that stable on a production line...

If you handwave that the laser is likely half a billion by itself then sure, this tech is... at the point where someone could start a serious development process to turn it into an industrial system. In 5 to 10 years, I'd estimate...