The difference is that CEOs fired a lot of people, using "AI can replace human coders" as an excuse. Also: there are claims all over the headlines along the lines of "We built something amazing without human coders."
Both claims are loud and are flooding the discussion, but under the hood it's mostly a slop disaster.
So the negative sentiment is a natural response (and a dose of realism).
Mix in exhaustion from previous hype cycles (NFTs?) and folks pushing the narrative that if you currently write any code manually, you’re obsolete and it’s hard to not want to push back negatively. Even if you find the tech interesting/useful.