Honestly I think that is more of a symptom of how slapped together the AI software stacks feel to an outsider.

All my dev friends swear this is the future, all my scientist coworkers just say it's a useful tool.

I have heard the pitch and have people explained how it works... But I have yet been handed a guide on how to set myself up properly to get the most out of AI. Like I have both a corporate openai gui agent as well as cli setup with a monthly allotment of tokens. But there is no clear standard guide on how I should be setting things up, like we do for python in books "here are the building blocks for python"/aka learn python the hard way