> I think the difference is many managers and above think that AI is infallible

Good for them. I hope they believe this because one of two things will happen.

Either they win on the free market because they went all in on AI and beat their competition thanks to AI productivity increases.

Or, their AI code is shit and they collapse and go bankrupt, and get beaten by the competitors using human written code so then they win on the free market proving AI is useless.

So if AI is good or bad for productivity, the free market will ultimately decide.

My take is that AI is just an amplifier of existing skill. 1x devs using AI can use it to be 10x devs, 10x devs can become 100x devs, while -1x devs will be -10x devs and so on.