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James R. Zygmont • Edited

Keep in mind that people running AI companies and creating AI products have a financial interest in promoting AI products; they'll only make money if companies believe that AI can do the jobs they say they do, regardless of whether they actually can.

This isn't to discredit AI as a whole, just a reminder that there's a lot of money involved here and everybody in that space is trying to get a piece.

And another thought: no matter how "boilerplate" a company's code base starts out as, there will always be proprietary code involved that somebody has to write. Regardless if that's for a new feature, bug fixes, or migrating a code base. If everybody had the exact same code for their business, there would be no standouts and everybody would be, in effect, providing the same product, which doesn't sound very appetizing.