This has been my experience. From the jump I have been surprised at who has been all in and who has just remained skeptically dipping their toe in mostly just to make snarky comments about how dumb it all is and they are consistently just chat box users. Meanwhile, a small minority of builders have slowly felt like they are leaving the rest of the population in some weird ceremony.

it's already archived

tl;dr:

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First, you have the "power users", who are all in on adopting new AI technology - Claude Code, MCPs, skills, etc. Surprisingly, these people are often not very technical. I've seen far more non-technical people than I'd expect using Claude Code in terminal, using it for dozens of non-SWE tasks. Finance roles seem to be getting enormous value out of it (unsurprisingly, as Excel on the finance side is remarkably limiting when you start getting used to the power of a full programming ecosystem like Python).

Secondly, you have the people who are generally only chatting to ChatGPT or similar. So many people I wouldn't expect are still in this camp.

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What I've come to realise is that the power of having a bash sandbox^[1] with a programming language and API access to systems, combined with an agentic harness, results in outrageously good results for non technical users. It can effectively replace nearly every standard productivity app out there - both classic Microsoft Office style ones - and also web apps. It can build any report you ask for - and export it however you like. To me this seems like the future of knowledge work.

The bifurcation is real and seems to be, if anything, speeding up dramatically. I don't think there's ever been a time in history where a tiny team can outcompete a company one thousand times its size so easily.

1. it wasn't archived yet, so I've linked the live original; I'll edit the archive link into this footnote after it's done ↩