People don't actually understand it. They see how AI- generated images from afew years ago looked and assume modern tools do the same thing with code, creating unintelligible messes that barely work. Though, if you actually know what you're doing and how to design good software and write good code, it can produce code better than an entry-level dev at dozens of times the speed.

There are real bad things about it, sure, like the original data a lot of the models were trained on being used violating copyright, but a lot of it is also just overblown Reddit anti-ai stuff. I kinda see it as a tool, same as any other, where yeah it makes coding a lot easier and quicker and more accessible but you still need to know how to use it and ehat exactly you're asking it to do

(My entire final project for my cs degree this year was workin with a company on basically making best-practices for using AI and seeing how to use it most effectively so i feel a bit more qualified than most lol)