[ineedasername]

>I'm puzzled (but not surprised) by the standard HN resistance & skepticism

Thinking back, I believe the change from enthusiasm to misanthropy (mis[ai]thropy?) happened around the time, and in increasing proportion to, it became a viable replacement for some of the labor performed by software devs.

Before that, the tone was more like "The fact is, if 80% of your job or 80% of its quality can be automated, it shouldn't be a job anymore."

[Anamon]

I think it's just that there's been enough time and the magic has worn off. People used it enough now and everybody has made their experiences. They initially were so transfixed that they didn't question the responses. Now people are doing that more often, and realising that likelihood of cooccurrence isn't a good measure for factuality. We've realised that the number of human jobs where it can reach 8%, let alone 80% of quality, is vanishingly small.