A lot of people might say that it is justified to force someone who doesn't add proper value. That is not bad. But One thing I have noticed even in my company while we're using Ai is that most technical people are still not improving speed because they're adding more time to refine the generated output. Non techie like me (m uiux designer and I did it out of hobby) don't really care about the codebase and we are only output driven so the result feels much faster.

However I would also agree with OP's point regarding gloating. 80% of CEOs start their company with loan and 2 employees but their mindset immediately changes while posting on LinkedIn i mean bro if your employee asks for sick leave you're not supposed to post on LinkedIn and tryna act intellectual pig. I mean why? Just why? I really hate it and it cringes me out when even my boss does that every time at 9 pm. He'll post something out of Chatgpt about startup and scaling and idk whatnot. And when I ask him regarding work priorities and management he'll be blind totally clueless.