In the end I wonder if everything boils down to the fear of missing out: everybody is leveraging it, and if I don't, I'll be less productive. So we force ourselves into it

You are not alone there. If the baby steps to leverage AI while being in control are too small, it seems to add more overhead. If the steps are too big, it increases the risk of creating technical debt if unattended. But such periodic attention also adds overhead 🤷

At some point we would be so fed up with stupid AI forced into fucking everything that we rather be dominated and slaved by it. More kinda Matrix.

From that to skynet