Try Claude Code for a weekend. Maybe that clears up the confusion about how amazing AI can be.
You can also take a look at North Korea as an example of a nation that decided the industrial revolution was one to sit out.
I've used Claude Code for quite a bit longer and it's good, but the productivity benefits are wildly overstated.
I use Claude Code regularly. It's... fine. It makes some things faster. Other things, it needs more manual cleanup or intervention than it's worth.
It's neat, for sure. But not exactly the steam machine.