If that was your stance, the question was never genuine. When you ask a question expecting a certain outcome, you are obviously not very curious about the answer.
Also, HN is a somewhat large community. I am skeptical about AI for neither reason you mentioned - I think it's a deadend technology and the economics make no sense. A ridiculous waste of resources sucking up all the oxygen in the room.
I don't really care about slop, because that would require me to think that human generated shit is somehow superior. Truth is most things made by humans also suck.
I am also not at all afraid of losing my job to AI. I seriously doubt the competence and experience of anyone afraid of it.
I am afraid of losing my job because of the incoming brutal economic conditions worldwide that I believe are in the horizon. Partly because of AI, but not because I think agents can do my job; because the humongous amount of money burned in the AI pit has to be accounted for.
> When you ask a question expecting a certain outcome, you are obviously not very curious about the answer.
That's an absurd take imo.
So you fall into bucket #1. More generally that AI isn't useful. At least not useful enough to invest time or money in.
Which kindof shows that my question was reasonable. Multiple people on this thread have answered differently.
But still a lot of hostility and anti-tech sentiment.