alt Hacker NewsSo many articles should prepend “My experience with ...” to their title. Here is OP's first sentence: “I spent the past ~4 weeks trying out all the new and fancy AI tools for software development.” Dude, you have had some experiences and they are worth writing up and sharing. But your experiences are not a stand-in for "the current state." This point applies to a significant fraction of HN articles, to the point that I wish the headlines were flagged “blog”.
Clickbait gets more reach. It's an unfortunate thing. I remember Veritasium in a video even saying something along the lines of him feeling forced to do clickbaity YouTube because it works so well.
The reach is big enough to not care about our feelings. I wish it wasn't this way.