I know a lot of companies working on niche C++ projects that would never use AI.
Are the companies claiming that, or the devs?
Because I would have a hard time believing the second.
AI in SW-Dev is just too powerful and convenient a tool to resist. Honestly can't think of any dev I know not using it to some degree.
And especially in obscure, long-running niche projects I imagine it an invaluable asset to be able to just throw a code snippet at the Chatbot and ask it what the heck is supposed to happen in the unstructured legacy mess (eye opening moment for me back in ChatGPT4 days).