When I rant about polarization of AI discussions I'm talking about on social media generally, not this one remarkably civil thread. But even your use of the term "roles" is doing it - you're assigning black hats and white hats to the participants instead of focusing on what they're saying.

Speaking of which, where do you get the idea that the author introduced bugs by using AI? He says that in his work to improve rsync by beefing up test suites, integration testing etc he used AI to do grunt work, and thoroughly reviewed every bit of it. He explains this very clearly, and I don't see the part where his use of AI created more bugs.

I am pro-AI - I'm interested in its development and looking forward to it getting better. What we have right now can be very useful, but it's kind of like 1980s 8-bit graphics video games. It hallucinates too often and is unconscionably resource-heavy. I'm very much against its overdeployment and misuse. Companies are charging into implementing AI like middle school boys who just figured out how to find free porn. They see it as yet another magic wand to reduce headcount - which is their endless quest. But blaming AI itself for this is like blaming a saw for wasting lumber or for not being a better saw. Blame shitty carpenters who use it wrong.