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.

I use the disparaging nature of the comments on HN as an indicator of AI progress. It’s negatively correlated. By that metric, AI has improved significantly this year alone.