[Quarrelsome]

AI always does this in the public sphere and software is particularly susceptible because there's no key metric to measure productivity and people obviously have vested emotional interests in the technology failing. On the other side people are always keen to show off their alignment with the new hotness, be that OOP, Agile, Functional, Ruby, web tech, js frameworks, Rust or agentic work today. Somewhere in the middle is the truth but I have no idea how it looks, given all the noise.

So everyone cherry picks the answers they want to justify their position and screams into the void, with each camp rallying around their talking points and often failing to engage with the other in good faith.

The only small mercy is that its not as bad as the conversation around the use of AI in art.

[ofjcihen]

It also doesn’t help that the middle of the road, realistic reaction to it is “it’s aight” and that’s just not a discussion worthy response.

[Quarrelsome]

and that stating such an opinion will still garner you hostility in the public sphere: "what do you mean; you don't hate it?!?!? it uses so much water...."