Hooray! It's good to see another retired dev with 40 years exp respond more eloquently than I ever can to the flood of anti-AI rage. What gets me most about the rage is the absolutism - the flat assumption that anyone who uses AI is either stupid or evil. Period. There's almost no genuine engagement on the topic, mostly just angry shouting. But you see that a lot online - some people think social media is Fight Club.

Seems like he’s been pushed into using LLMs as a way to cope with the deluge of LLM-generated security reports

It's not just LLM generated security reports, but vulnerabilities discovered by AI. Your wording implies they were just reports, and of less validity. Lazy LLM reports are not what he is trying to cope with, since there is nothing to do but close those reports. He is talking about real, verified, vulnerabilities that weren't discovered until AI tools. Not because humans couldn't find them, but none ever did. When it comes to finding, it really doesn't matter if it's found by human or AI, since that doesn't change its existence or severity.

I used AI tools to do the grunt work because they are good at that.

This is something people complaining should remember. AI is good at some parts of the work of a software engineer: the grunt work.