>There's people saying AI isn't living up its hype / valuation, I don't see many saying "utterly useless".

There's more people saying AI doesn't live up to the hype. The people who are saying it's utterly useless is still quite large on HN. It's just that most of them are midway through changing their story because reality is smashing them in the face.

>And there's plenty who worship at the altar of Claude.

I mean who doesn't use it? No one claims it's perfect or a god of code. But if you're not using it you're behind.