Same happened in the dot-com boom. There was a bunch of folks who were in it because they were genuinely interested in building cool stuff. And then the money got interested, and suddenly there was a wave of scam artists and grifters. That receded (but never entirely went away) when the money bubble burst.
Same. I was convinced software was beautiful by previous generations - and as far as I can tell, it was.
It's been on the downhill for a while even before the AI wasn't it?
When people started making serious money it attracted all the bros and psychopaths from the finance industry
Fun fact: this was upvoted to +4 when I first posted it, and then downvoted to 0 over the next few days. What a split there is among us!