[computably]

I don't see how it's surprising at all, given the current climate of overmarketing and overpromising on "AI" in tech. The most realistic applications are also the most straightforward - academic cheating, machine-generated "art," mediocre automated customer support, and so forth.

[colordrops]

It's surprising because I thought Nix users were more discerning and not caught up in binary thinking. Just because it's overhyped doesn't mean it doesn't have any uses or should be rejected completely. I just solved a dnsmasq and systemd issue today in a 3 minute chat with Claude-sonnet 3.5 that I had been banging my head against for 6 hours. Why wouldn't I try to harness that?

[computably]

Sorry, I'm not part of the Nix community so I don't have the context to answer that. Although I would infer from "so many applications of AI," you meant more than just technical support chatbots.