I am not sure if I am more tired of people building with AI or people complaining about people building with AI. If you really that bothered, there is nothing stoping anybody from keep doing things the good old way... What's the big deal?
It doesn't really help us improve our code, which wouldn't just be "creating a lot of it really easily", but refactoring existing things. Not just performance, readability, variable and function names and how it's all structured, all the artsy fartsy craftsmanship stuff. Docs that are more readable and more concise. That would be "building" or "development" worth the name.
In other words, the longer we would massage and work on our code with actually beneficial "AI", the better off we would be on the day all models have an outage. Instead of the other way around, and the direction is less expertise, less autonomy, less self-mastery, and also less community, because everybody just makes "their" version of whatever, taking from others instead of collaborating with them.
And all that is on top of the "robbery" that it still is. It's taking what humans made so far, uses it against us, and destroys the "junior pipeline" or however you want to call it. Speaking of, since someone on HN said the comments on https://www.cringely.com/2026/07/16/the-auditors-opinion/ were interesting, I read them, and here's one:
> One of the sadder knock-on effects of the current AI bubble has been how hordes of elderly people are desperately clinging to chatbots as some kind of “miracle cure” that will fulfill all their dreams and fantasies while also saving them from loneliness. I know at least two older people in real life who are suffering from this delusion to some extent.
> The younger people, meanwhile, tend to reject generative AI as “slop” and treat it with the disdain it deserves.
> This is a curious inversion of every other technological breakthrough in human history. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed the dawn of both personal computers and the Internet, and I’ve seen young people (including myself) get very excited about the possibilities of both. It’s just SO WEIRD to be in the early stages of a new technology that everyone (except old people, evil billionaires, and the usual group of grifters) is kinda meh about.
> I don’t know what that means, but I don’t think it’s a good sign.