I have the opposite experience, the amount of AI boosters deriding the less enthusiastic, gleefully exclaiming how someone will be "left behind" if they don't immediately adopt the latest hype cycle, or sharing AI slop and either embellishing or outright lying about it's capabilities is making me want to log off forever. "Handwritten code? Don't you only care about providing maximum shareholder value?" No.

No-one (apart from some CEOs) cares that you don't use AI, I promise you.

The thing that triggers people is comments like yours still, even at this point, claiming that AI just produces slop and everyone is just lying.

It is absurd, and people are obviously going to react to it.