Feels like people are using it as a shortcut to dismiss products they don t like.
At the end of the day, devs have always relied on tools to go faster, frameworks, libraries, Stack Overflow, templates, all of it. AI is just the next step in that chain. Typing code was never the hard part anyway. Understanding what to build, making the right product calls, and handling messy edge cases is where the real work is.
AI doesn t change good vs bad builders, it just changes speed.