Wow. This is quite a realization for me. I've noticed something similar with friends who got on the AI train. They're building AI enabled apps for work all day and are "interested" by it... to a point. It seems like they have been building things to intentionally kneecap it for some reason. I've noticed our talks have gotten less from "wow imagine what we can do with it" to more like "it should stay in it's corner and do this". I wish I could articulate this better, but it's strange how, very recently, people I know have quickly turned very sour, to the dreams of LLMs.

Like they saw something they don't want to talk about and it's haunting them.