It's a rare opportunity for someone to actually ask for a conversation, so let's have one.

• First of all, "no one writing software" taken literally, is simply not true. People still write in all sorts of obsolete / obscure programming languages, mostly for fun, though occasionally there's reasons why one might want to in a real world scenario. To me, code is art. You cannot stop art.

• If we're talking figuratively, when it comes to the "professional" software development. I'm not familiar with this side of things, but here's my opinion: A lot of the industry has been churning out slop long before AI became a thing. Keeping the gears turning. Making changes nobody's asked for. Buying up and destroying smaller companies. All in the name of profit and infinite growth. This is bad, AI or not.

• From what I've seen, you at the very least still need experienced programmers to review and guide the AI, otherwise you'll quickly run into unmaintainable, possibly insecure code. But proliferating AI coding will lead to nobody building that experience.

• "Insecure code? But just let AI write test cases and review it for security flaws!" It might be good at catching some errors humans make when writing code, but if you spin this to its extreme, you will end up with AI cheating to satisfy the security tests, rather than actually writing secure code.

• And you say productivity, but all I see is waste. Many people on your side of the fence desperately want to avoid having to label your "work" as being made with AI, because it's not a good look. People don't want slopware. AI is good at creating things quickly. To make a lot of noise, drowning out the signal. But in the end it's just something flashy without substance or longevity.

• AI is great if you want people further driven away from their fellow humans and into content addiction, with a short attention span, that can barely think for themselves. In the end, it's the perfect tool for fascism.

• So, ask yourself: Who actually benefits from this?

I'm not rejecting all that (generative) AI can do. There's certainly some cases where it appears to be useful as a tool, in the right hands, for the right context. But the post you're defending is pushing things to an extreme. And would you know, AI companies themselves are just as extreme. It's a figurative suicide cult, if not a literal one.

I could go on. And I'm a bit all over the place. But anyway, this is why you're experiencing a lot of pushback in some online spaces.