> Coding was already democratized.

This is funny to see, exact same argument that occurred when Stable Diffusion released, but engineers on HN didn't really care as long as it made pretty pictures. But now that AI comes for my industry? Oh the outrage! In reality it's just hypocrisy all around.

You speak as though everyone on HN has the same attitude towards these things, but that's just not true.

There were naysayers then and there are naysayers now.