I fall into camp 2 but I’m different. I cannot delude myself away from reality. What you will find is that people in camp 2 are lying to them selves. They are denying an impending reality where ai slop becomes even better than the code they write themselves.

Also it’s more than an art or a craft. It’s identity. Many people hold their coding skill as an identity they honed it over many years and it put them in the ranking they are in today. This kind of destruction of identity by AI is what causes people to deny reality.

This stuff also covers your job, even if you don’t hold coding as an identity it is still responsible for many people’s livelihoods. Like ai is convenient right now but what happens when it gets even more convenient? What happens to your job and your life especially if software was all you did for over a decade?

I’m in camp 2 and I can’t lie to myself about what’s happening. I’ve embraced ai and I now vibe code daily even though I was originally an artistic functional programmer. This ability comes at high cost. I’m able to do it because I hold zero identity. I dont identity with anything and I don’t put too much pride into anything I do or at least if I put pride into something I’m always conscious of severing the entire thing at a moments notice.

Lying to oneself is a powerful ability but it becomes a liability when society goes through an intense paradigm shift. This is what is happening now.