Yes. Remember that this crowd likes the newest things, and doesn't represent the general public.

in no particular order:

  astronomy
  cryptocurrency
  climate change
  behavioral health
  prediction markets

For sure! Whilst most of the people around me seem to enjoy putting up with bad outcomes for the tradeoff of a few good ones (using ai codegen), I'll only use it to remind me of something ("please provide an example of doing X with Y") or for documentation lookups. With both, I have to double-check anyway.

I don't have any real desire to "have my productivity lifted" by ai codegen. I'd rather write my own code than debug someone else's. I like using the tdd cycle to let a design emerge. I care about the details in my code. I aim for maintainability over speed.