> HN has a base of strong anti-AI bias

If anything, HN, has a pro-AI bias. I don't know of any other medium where discussions about AI consistently get this much frontpage time, this amount of discussion, and this many people reporting positive experiences with it. It's definitely true that HN isn't the raging pro-AI hypetrain it was two years ago, but that shouldn't be mistaken for "strong anti-AI bias".

Outside of HN I am seeing, at best, an ambivalent reaction: plenty of people are interested, almost everyone tried it, very few people genuinely like it. They are happy to use it when it is convenient, but couldn't care less if it disappeared tomorrow.

There's also a small but vocal group which absolutely hates AI and will actively boycott any creative-related company stupid enough to admit to using it, but that crowd doesn't really seem to hang out on HN.