Source: Nina Schick
Despite two years of mainstream AI hype, adoption remains concentrated among tech workers and early adopters. The mass market has largely sat out the wave. The gap between AI capability and consumer integration is not technical—it's trust, usefulness, and distribution. Those are the actual problems of consumer product building, and Silicon Valley has a habit of underestimating them. Until AI solves a problem people recognize they have, it stays a specialist tool, not infrastructure.