You can build great things using AI agents, and you can build trash.
Your ideological opposition to that is not shared by as wide a percentage of developers as you may think based on some highly self selected online corners.
I too remember running `rails new MyGreatApp` and having hoop dreams of being the next billionaire entrepreneur, but a boilerplate app is a boilerplate app.
I know this position is wrong, but it feels hard to spend my time on something that someone else might not have spent the time to create
I don't think that position is wrong. I felt similarly when tutoring a high-school student recently. They didn't do any work themselves, they were forced by their parent to come to me two days before a test. I offered to help, but when I realized that the student didn't care enough to study by themselves, I basically lost all motivation to help them.
It feels the same with AI-generated content. If the "creator" didn't care to spend time on it, why should I spend mine?
Your ideological opposition to that is not shared by as wide a percentage of developers as you may think based on some highly self selected online corners.
If 30% of devs love openclaw, I'm not re-examining my informed opinion, I am forming a new one about that 30% cohort.