Recently I gave a talk at a major conference. Before and after the event, I met quite a few people. Among the attendees, there were broadly two camps. One camp spends every day immersed in open-source communities, building products and growing their own direction. Chat with them for a few minutes and you can feel a density of being on the front lines—their viewpoints grow on-site, carrying heat and contagious energy. The other camp carries a different scent: boss-assigned tasks, checkbox logic. They talk about "I built a thing, it can do this and that"—a very standard past-tense software narrative. Right now, AI is least lacking in "what it can do"; what it's most lacking is "whether it can do it well." The latter camp usually runs out of things to say right there. There's already a sizable gap between these two groups. The bigger chasm is still behind them; I'll come back to that. First, let me talk about what happened at my home these past two days.…