In my real life experience it's been the middling devs that always talk about "ai slop" and how the tools can't do their jobs.

- those who have embraced AI and learned to use it well

- those who have embraced AI but treat it as a silver bullet

- those who reject AI

First group is by far the most productive and adds the most value to the team.

If anything the silver bullet people are mostly managers and C levels... some of which don't even use the tools themselves.

Of the devs that rejected it at first, the ones with the same sentiment I'm seeing online in threads like these, we forced one to give it a try. He now treats totters between using it well and treating it as a silver bullet. I still hear him incredulous about the things claude does at meetings, "I had to do <thing> and I thought I'd let claude get a crack at it... did it in one shot"