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Start free trial →Data Engineering Central · Software Engineering & Infra · November 2026
Asked whether he is bullish or bearish on AI, Kevin, a non-technical heavy user, describes both the personal-software upside and the flood of low-quality content.
…So me and that dude hiked for a day. And then we were like, We got to get out of here because they got like 60 mile an hour winds. And but yeah, I've mostly completed what I want to complete for the year, but I have one more that I want to take advantage of like during peak fall foliage seasons.
…it. I'm just curious. I always try to get people's thoughts on AI. Are you like just generally bullish on it? Are you kind of like mad? Do you not like it? You're like, it's okay. I'm going to use it. How it helps me? Does it bother you? I'm just curious where you said about it. Just generally. So
I use AI in my personal life like all day, every day. So I'm like, I'm in the rabbit hole for sure. However, I'm not technical. So like you would know way more. I'm not an expert on this stuff. Like I just, I have Gemini and Claude and I use that kind of all day. In terms of my view on AI, like when it first, like in the 2023 timeframe, I wanted to become like the expert on it. And then I realized that's just a losing battle. No one, like, it's just changing too fast. And like, I kind of just get sick of hearing about it. I view it as the way that it's like amazing in some sense of the word that it's like you can do some incredible things immediately. Like I have a certain kind of way I'm eating and I'm tracking like certain kinds of foods. And I had Claude build me an app that I could just track it immediately. Like in five minutes, I was able to put this thing together and I've used it for multiple weeks now. Like that's incredible. In the past, I would have been paying like, you know, eight bucks a month in the app store or whatever. So on the one hand, it's amazing. On the other hand, it's just like, I do think it's just…
Yeah, for sure. It's, I mean, it's nice to have, I use it every day too. And it's like, even in the woods, like, what is this tree? You know, there's been like, what is this tree again? Or like, can I eat that mushroom? I probably shouldn't ask you that, but yeah. But it's like helpful, but it is…
I think my hot take on it, just from like a layman's perspective, is I think most of what's most. What we hear right now is just hype.
Yeah, for sure.