Where I landed was as such: I hated the very concept of AI. My post history, if you look, deliberately referred to the tech as LLMs, and I mostly still do.

I've been behind the 8-ball at $dayjob, for reasons I don't have a say in, nor does anyone in my entire CoC. Vendors are delayed, we have hard shipping deadlines on our end.

Work pays for an expensive "AI" sub. I used it because I'm in a jam and deadlines are tight.

It worked. I'm a decent engineer/programmer. The tech saved me a month, at least. I think the money around all this tech is wrong and bad, but in a vacuum the tech works.