Plenty of people on that list maintain serious production systems or open source projects in use by a wide variety of people. It's not just some nerds tinkering in their basement.
Coding agents have really only taken off in the last 10 months. So it is still early.
We are billions of people opposed to AI as an ecocidal tech and a heteronomous political project, including much of the IT sector. Just because you only follow grifters and scammers trying to profit from the AI bubble doesn't mean "surely" we all follow those trends.
Nah. Most of my coworkers got so annoyed by VS Code injecting copilot and other "helpers" that they have switched to Kate or Vim.
There are still a lot of places that value engineering excellence, and plenty of people who value doing the actual work and knowing that it is correct, instead of delegating to an LLM and hoping.