Divide the amount of revenue from the big AI companies by the total number of developers worldwide and you'll see that most are still mostly hand-coding despite what the megaphones on the internet say.

The overwhelming majority AI spend is being done by startups funded by venture capital.

Meanwhile, big companies have massively cut/capped AI spending at the exact time these companies need to triple prices to get any margins at all.

Perhaps dead internet theory applies more than normal to programming forums.