So we have to assume there’s good stuff being made by newbies that no one else is seeing?

I didn’t have to take it on faith that people were actually making amazing things with digital cameras. I could look at them. I could reproduce it.

I mean, yeah. I've seen a network infrastructure monitoring system for an ISP, a router config generator tool, and a go-based BGP EVPN daemon in the past week. All are in production.

Were any of these created by people using AI who weren’t already capable of making them?

Maybe if you gave them a decade.

Didn’t take a decade for digital cameras to prove they were useful.

What does this comment even mean???

Not GP, but yes and yes.