> The deliberate conflating of AI code and AI assets as equivalent in "AI declarations" is bad.

Agreed

> The author here however goes further, and claims their argument against AI code is so strong, that they'd lose brain cells by actually making the argument, so we just have to accept that as fact.

No it's just beyond the scope of their article to go into the explanation. In the game dev sphere this has already been discussed a lot. This is not this person's novel and unique opinion, even though it's pretty outside of what shows up on HN. The article is not there to convince you, it's reporting on a situation

> They then go on to suggest that using AI for bug fixing is terrible

In the context that they could have engaged an expert instead. I don't see a very strong line between doing that and using google / SO - maybe they think those avenues still had humans in the loop even if those sources themselves are rampant with ethical issues (plagiarism etc.)