People definitely have preferences of tools. For your construction analogy, I'm anti hammer. I prefer screws in almost every instance where a nail could be used, and hammers aren't the right tool for screws. Hammers suck.

Back to AI, it's a tool, and you can definitely be for or against it. Someone against AI might prefer other tools, like a canvas, camera, word doc, or visual studio (depending on the application they could be using the AI tool for)

Weirdly common I would say. US dockworkers / longshoremen are anti-automation big time.

https://ilaunion.org/the-ilas-fight-against-automation-prese...

The lack of productivity-growth in construction is also telling that this industry as a whole may be a bit too pro-hammer and anti-innovation

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/why-has-produ...

You can be pro- or anti- nail gun. I'd expect carpenters are pro-nail-gun when working professionally, but good ones avoid nail guns in at least some of their own projects, so they can stay in touch with the underlying physics.