It's a constantly shifting goalpost. Really it's a just a big lie that says AI will do whatever you can imagine it would.

I think I'm better off developing a broad knowledge of design patterns and learning the codebases I work with in intricate, painstaking detail as opposed to trying to "go fast" with LLMs.

You hit the nail on their head.

They go out of their way to call you an "AI bot" if you say something that contradicts their delusional world view.

Thank you for saying this

Also If I worked for one of these firms I would ensure that executives and people with elevated status receive higher quality/more expensive inference than the peons. Impress the bosses to keep the big contracts rolling in, and then cheap out on the day-to-day.

That's one way of interpreting things...

That's a very optimistic way of looking at things!

AI users should fear verbal abuse and shame.

If you express an anti-AI opinion (without neutering it by including "but actually it's soooooooo good at writing shitty code though") they will silence you.

The astroturfing is out of control.

AI firms and their delusional supporters are not at all interested in any sort of discussion.

These people and bot accounts will not take no for an answer.