If that was your stance, the question was never genuine. When you ask a question expecting a certain outcome, you are obviously not very curious about the answer.

Also, HN is a somewhat large community. I am skeptical about AI for neither reason you mentioned - I think it's a deadend technology and the economics make no sense. A ridiculous waste of resources sucking up all the oxygen in the room.

I don't really care about slop, because that would require me to think that human generated shit is somehow superior. Truth is most things made by humans also suck.

I am also not at all afraid of losing my job to AI. I seriously doubt the competence and experience of anyone afraid of it.

I am afraid of losing my job because of the incoming brutal economic conditions worldwide that I believe are in the horizon. Partly because of AI, but not because I think agents can do my job; because the humongous amount of money burned in the AI pit has to be accounted for.