This same sentiment we now have against AIs has existed in the past, mostly against what was then called "high-level" languages, that is C, Pascal and maybe C++. Similar opinions were once held against memory-wasting languages (those with garbage collection) and languages that are too easy (the ones with dynamic typing and no pointers).

Programmers that write "slow C" instead of "fast assembly" were once regarded as lazy and incompetent, same for programmers that write "slow Java instead of fast C" or "slow Python instead of fast Java."