I feel like the two types of people described in this paper match really well with my experience. To give an example, I like to code, I code to solve problems. I created an internal tool for my company because it was useful for me and solved a few problems that I was dealing with in a day to day. I shared it with a few coworkers and that was pretty much it.

Once the "useful type of person" (like the one described in the paper) discovered the tool and liked it, started thinking about how we could sell it. That was never my purpose and if anything I would have liked to make it open source. Also, once you start going down that path, the original project, which you created out of curiosity, is now there to "serve a purpose" and sometimes it becomes too disconnected from its original purpose.

I also believe that's really hard for these two types of people to put in each other's boots.

Could this also be the two types of people we see with AI? The ones that think that AI is horrible because what they like is coding and crafting something vs the ones that love AI because it allows them to build for a purpose