The video cuts through bubble chatter: investor overexcitement can coexist with real, compounding gains. Nano Banana shows “good-enough” image edits today, but the real story is year-end leaps in reasoning and usage—700M weekly users, 12B ARR, benchmarks climbing, and tangible wins like Alpha Evolve cutting Google compute. The MIT/McKinsey headlines miss where ROI actually lands: shadow AI in the hands of practitioners. That tracks my rule of thumb—AI won’t fix a broken process; small teams wiring tools into real workflows do. Treat it as a power tool, not a hire. Measure output, not vibes. Small one- or two-person teams with modern Java/Quarkus pipelines beat committee AI.