>My understanding is that the former (sucking up) is a personality trait, substantially influenced by the desire to facilitate engagement.

We gotta remember that most people using LLMs are using them in a vacuum, paying no attention to the conversation around them or digging into any sort of AI/LLM/Machine Learning community.

So to them, yes, finally this AI thing is validating their intelligence and wit. It's a pretty slippery slope.

So yes this AI thing is finally validating my product idea that the engineers kept saying NO to.

It's not just that it wants to find a solution, it's not just validating, it very rarely says "no". Its not saying no to things that are, for lack of a better term, fucking dumb.

That doesn't mean the tools arent without merit. For code bases I use infrequently that are well documented AI is a boon to me as an engineer.

But "vibe coding" is the new dreamweaver. A lot of us made a lot of money cleaning up after. It's a good thing.