> There's this moment in every new technology where everyone pretends they know what they're doing.
Perhaps that is true, but without any examples I was immediately suspicious of this line.
> Either way, we're in this delicious middle ground where nobody can pretend expertise because the whole thing keeps changing under our feet.
Upon reflection this does in fact remind me of the early days of rocketry when we were just reaching into the upper atmosphere and then orbit. Wild things were being tried because there was not yet any handrails. Exploding a huge tank of water in the ionosphere just because, launching giant mylar balloons into orbit to try and bounce radar signals off of them, etc.