"AI" on the other hand is shoved down people's throats by management and by those who profit from in in some way. There is nothing organic about it.
AI adoption is, for better or worse, voluntarily or not, very fast compared to other technologies.
The same could be true for coding agents too, or maybe not. Time will tell.
This adoption rate / shoving is insane. It is not based on anything but dollars.
No new real wealth can be created but financial wealth may transfer from the firms buying stuff to the large tech firms - thereby creating new financial wealth for big tech stockholders. In the long run the two should converge - but in the short run they can diverge. And I think that’s what we are seeing.
The attempt to compare it with Version Control, with sliced bread, with plumbing and sanitization practices. Think of any big innovation and compare it with it until people give in and accept this is the biggest bestest thing ever to have happened and it is spreading like wildfire.
Even AI wouldn't defend itself this passionately but it conquered some people's hearts and minds.