Agree except for this part
> If you're at work and they really care about getting something out of the door, do whatever you think is best.
If you don’t mind being jobless, sure do whatever you think is best. Not all of us can simply switch companies easily. Folks need to realise that AI in a company setting works for the benefit of the company, not for the individual.
But do companies really know how to use AI? I think most of it is experimentation - throwing things to the wall and seeing what sticks.
It's the practitioner who eventually figures out what really works. I see this the same way the agile movement emerged. It was initiated by people who were hands-on programmers and showed enough benefit at minimizing software waste before it took a life of its own and started getting peddled by people who didn't really understand the underlying principles.