> people can look at the same thing and reach diametrically opposed conclusions. It's very peculiar and I've never experienced anything like it in my career until recently
React vs other frameworks (or no framework). Object oriented vs functional. There's loads of examples of this that predate AI.
I dont think it's quite the same. The cases you mention are more like two alternative but roughly functionally equivalent things. People still argue and use both, but the argument is different. Even if people don't explicitly acknowledge it, at some level they understand it's a difference in taste.
This feels to me more like the horses vs cars thing, computers vs... something (no computers?), crypto vs "dollar-pegged" money, etc. It's deeper. I'm not saying the AI people are the "car" people, just that...there will be one opinion that will exist in 5-20 years, and the other will be gone. Which one... we'll see.
> People still argue and use both, but the argument is different
React vs no framework is at least in the same ballpark as AI vs no AI. Some people are determined to prove to the world that React/AI/functional programming solves everything. Some people are determined to prove the opposite. Most people just quietly use them without feeling like they need to prove anything.
React vs other frameworks (or no framework). Object oriented vs functional. There's loads of examples of this that predate AI.