I wonder if a contributing factor to it being that low is that social media has contributed to the lack of attention, focus and creativity in a reasonable chunk of said youngens.

Would be interesting to discover that social media itself turned out to be a contributing factor in the effectiveness of the social media ban.

My guess is that the people putting this out know this perfectly well. What they are trying to do is put out propaganda to sway public sentiment that the system is not working and should therefore be scrapped. I suspect this content is being funded indirectly by the social media companies.

My fear is that the people putting this out are going to be somewhat successful in their endevours.

No No, you just need to call help desk and they will get you sorted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The clear answer is to go further. They should get AI to check their AI written code for bugs. They should also get AI to mentor the junior programmers and another AI to check on all the other AI's and write a summary for the execs on how it is all going.

It is good to see Judges getting cluey on how generative AI works and constructing robust arguments regarding its use.
All these "creative" arguments that people are using to justify its use could easily seem reasonable to someone who is not tech savvy.

If he truly believes this I would like to see him put his money where his mouth is and start mass firing MS employees and replacing them with AI.
I would love to see others call his bluff and asking him how many MS employees are going and when.

This.
Where I work, everyone was going gaga over AI a year or so ago and almost every discussion involved a comment such as "have you tried AI for it yet?" or "I used AI and look what it did".
Now I very rarely hear AI mentioned in discussions. I see a few people using it here or there to help write a report or tidy up a presentation but apart from that, most employees here seem to have gotten over it and moved on.
I suspect that they are getting worried that they are committing $billions to data centers and when they are finally built the hysteria will be over and the assets will not recover costs.

The news has been filled with articles about companies proclaiming how they are going all in on AI.
I wonder how long until we see the first articles about companies proclaiming they are ditching AI and the benefits / competitive advantage they seek to reap from doing so?

If you look at the articles over the last few years you will see that no they haven't. The types of articles showing up here seem to have followed a pattern similar to other new technologies (curved screens, 3D TV, VR) where it starts off with articles discussing the technology from a technical perspective, moves on to discussions speculating on potential growth and impacts on the wider community, starts moving onto financials of the companies involved and then moves on to decline in interest.

This is normal human behaviour. How many times have you gotten a new device (car, phone etc) and been really interested in some new feature. You initially use it quite a bit and are excited about it but then the novelty wares off and you start to use the feature less. You don't necessarily stop using it but it doesn't turn out to be this "game changing" thing as initially thought.

I believe that AI is going through a similar trajectory and the articles on here are really just reflecting that.

It doesn't mean that AI is going to go completely bust, just that it has been overhyped and is now starting to fall back down to where it should naturally be. However people that have overinvested in the type are desperate to try and keep the hype going and will go all out in trying (which with hype, you have to really).

In the not too distant past all the articles I saw were positive for AI. So far this year the trend all seems to be not positive for AI and this article is just adding to it. I'm rather hoping that the more this sentiment builds, the less appetite there will be to cram AI into everything and we can start getting back to a world that isn't increasingly filled with AI slop.

I wonder if this is why Nvidia has bailed (or looks to be bailling) on their pledge to invest $100 billion in OpenAI?
It probably wouldn't be a good bet pouring all that money into a company whose market share is tending down that fast.

Then this will inevitably lead to a shortage of experienced programmers in a decade or so's time. Then what?
Or is the plan that by then the AI will be improved such that it can progressively replace experience as the experience disappears anyway?
And once the experienced programmers are gone, who will create the material for the AI's to be trained upon?

With all the random crazy things the Trump administration keeps implementing and the even crazier ways they often implement them and the haphazard ways they communicate them, then consistently change them as they haven't thought through what they are doing it is going to be it is going to be easier and easier for the scammers to scam people as increasingly nobody knows what is actually going on and what is legitimate and what is not.

"And this is clearly a sign of how incompetent their Democrat governor is. I'm sending in the National Guard now!!!!! Oh, it's a Republican governor. Well it's clearly evidence of how desperate those Democrats are to rig the next election. They're traitors!!!! and I want them locked up."

No no, the numbers are great, the greatest numbers we've ever seen. It's all the fault of those woke business owners who are deliberately not hiring people just to try and make Trump look bad. No doubt those woke employers were put there by Biden as well and it's also all his fault.