When other industries have/had been getting fucked over the past 10+ years, a large swathe of the "tech bros" on these forums were laughing their asses off at all the "LRN2CODE" memes circling the internet. It's hilariously ironic watching all the "AI" stuff unfold now that the shoe is on the other foot.
I still remember this shit, but it wasn't the "tech bros" ... it was the journalists gloating on the fact that blue collar people lost their jobs, and that they should just "learn to code". There's a famous Wired article from 2017 basically arguing that "coding" is the next blue collar job, because it's a stable 40 h/week job. Which tells you everything what those journalists actually know about any IT job.
The "tech bros" you are mentioning mostly can't code either, and are basically glorified salesmen. One of the foremost "tech bros" in our era is Sam Altman, who never successfully created a business: His claim to fame is a failed startup called Loopt, which was quickly bought out for $43 million by a bank ... and then quickly shuttered once they realized the tech is worthless and they were lied to about user numbers.
The ugly truth: Anyone that really, REALLY studied computer science actually realizes that "coding", as in writing down the actual program, is only a fraction of the job--and it is often the least interesting part--when you have an actual problem to solve under time and/or budget constraints. Doesn't mean it's not fun when you are tinkering with things in your free time.
There are rumors that Oracle had some highly paid database gurus that had their own assigned "interns", which would write all the boilerplate code for them, only for the guru to specify the architecture and then fill in the "interesting" parts. Which is exactly what AI is currently good for.
Oh, and in the end, when journalists were starting to get laid off, they suddenly claimed that "learn to code" was hate speech because it hurt their feelings.
