All my devs use them for their daily work and haven’t once questioned that it’s useful.

Not questioned that it's useful or just told you what you want to hear? I would argue that it's the latter, being driven by fear of losing their jobs especially given the current state of the tech sector with the amount of layoffs of devs due to them being replaced by AI.

Apparently you don't follow the news about software vulnerabilities. Since LLMs started replacing coders the number has skyrocketed. I've also seen more consumers abstaining from online platforms than ever because they know, they don't think they know, that sloppers such as yourself will not hesitate to sell off their face and identity to Peter Theil the billionnaire nazi.

AI doesn't have a use case aside from disinformation, it's a net negative on society by a lot.

An LLM is basically a glorified autocomplete. Ideal for writing standard code blocks and automating repetitive tasks. It's a bit like getting a trainee to bash out stuff that doesn't require much thought. Using it to write your entire codebase and calling it "vibe coding" is like getting a trainee to write your entire codebase.

and possibly xenophobia

Bruh what

I agree with your point but “xenophobia”? Come on man, what are you smoking? Also loads of people just don’t have a day-to-day use case for LLM’s, doesn’t make them stupid/retarded for never seeing any upside and only see the downsides. Explaining what you use it for and its pros is a much better argument

Which is likely why they put AI in quotes.

Whenever I ask that crap about something, I get very often wrong answer. When you tell it that it is wrong, it says Oh yeah, that is like that.

And even if they didn't AI is rapidly becoming a generic commodity. Just build a datacenter and plug in an off-the-shelf LLM. There's nothing to really catch up on other than infrastructure, which will be radically cheaper when the bubble pops. There is no crucial or indispensible IP for countries or even companies to own.

Given the current inflated costs (and the energy crisis), the best thing to do is wait until this shakes out and build in the future with a clearer understanding of the destination.

We should really think about the (our) AI Corpus first: https://aicorpus.eu/