Personally, I don't know a place more hyped up about AI than HN. It turned from my daily dose of tech excitement into a daily dose of tech anxiety.

As for your argument, there's no such thing as elegance. Code "elegance" is mainly maintainability (and, to a smaller degree, some other aspects like security, performance, etc.). The importance of maintainability greatly varies between projects, industries and individual subjective viewpoints, resulting in the diversity of attitudes to AI-assisted coding. That, of course, assumes that AI cannot match humans in maintainability. Which seems to be the case to me right now. But it also seems that the gap is closing, not as much through AI writing "better" code, but mainly through it being increasingly capable of maintaining "bad" code.

It’s a boosting strategy to go where people are mostly positive about AI and complain that they’re too negative. As in “guys, are you true believers or not?”

That said, I agree with dang’s read. This site is big enough that both camps are decently represented (expect “mine”, of course), but anyone sees only what they want to see. The boosters see only doomers, and viceversa.

> Personally, I don't know a place more hyped up about AI than HN.

Other than every boardroom on earth you mean? ;-)