Comment by latentsea

>This makes no sense. Everybody I know, including me, who hates the big picture of what AI has done loves programming immensely and does it as a hobby as well as a job. The people at my job who are most positive about AI are those who didn't particularly enjoy programming. You're applying Occam's Razor backwards.

I think I know people in both camps who feel both ways. I'd say it's all just noise at this point. What's clear is some people like it (for now) and some people don't (and probably won't ever). I've gone from liking it to not over the course of the last year. I used to love programming/the craft, and then got burnt out of it, so I loved it because it made building things easier again after I stopped caring about that, and then it made work hellish when everyone basically stopped caring about the craft at all.