>> Given the soul-crushingly large amounts of money sloshing around in this tiny slice of the industry, the amount of astroturfing, positive-sentiment manufacturing, & etc. is right about where I expect it to be... as is the amount of vehement denial that it exists. ;)

> The other option: people are using AI successfully on the job and are writing based on their own experience.

Those aren't mutually exclusive.

And it's worth noting that people claiming to use "AI successfully on the job" often do not stop at "their own experience." They often make sweeping statements like "LLMs write better code than people," and attack any critiques or skepticism of LLMs.

...and here's the denial!

A careful reader of my post notices that I neither said nor suggested that there were no honest success stories. ;)