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I generally hate AI, but the things I hate about it are that it's being controlled by greedy capitalists and forced upon the world as a product, that it's driving the worst component shortage in electronics history, and that it's being used to replace human labor. I've found genuine uses for it though, and if it weren't for the capitalists trying to use it to destroy the world, I'd have a mich higher opinion of it. I used it at work to help write code based on a 4000+ page datasheet, it's pretty good at churning through a lot of documentation to find the relevant parts. It is basically an advanced search engine after all. I also had some good success with it lately (specifically through Google's AI mode) reverse engineering the RGB chip in some RAM. I had reverse engineered it years ago bit there were still some things I didn't understand. Uploaded a firmware dump to Google AI and it was able to find some missing details by analyzing or decompiling the binary. I also used it to recover corrupted SPD on some RAM sticks, gave it a dump of the corrupted data and it determined what bytes needed fixing. I think that in the right hands and used as an actual assistant, it can be helpful, but too many people are trying to cede all control to it in the name of profit and ruining everything. I hope that local AI and smaller, more focused models become more common and that the environmental and economicl disaster that is hyperscalers starts to die off.