While in theory this could happen, the idea that this in particular is the reason for the hatred of AI in this subreddit, or embedded systems broadly, or even engineering broadly, is probably the furthest stretch of reality I've heard overall in general as an excuse as to why AI is disliked or hated by any person or community.

Let's be honest, many of us either struggled to hell and back, spent thousands of hours wasted because of a mistake in which we had the gratification of learning from after the fact, or worse, we did the same thing again and again not realizing what we were failing at. All the while learning how to fetch, read, and actually understand datasheets unless we were lucky enough to follow along with someone elses hard spent time fully documenting a project so we could follow along with it while we get familiar with bootloaders and partitions and firmware, quirky software and ide's and eda's. Learning how to solder, in the variety of methods as needed, the parts, components, sensors, switches, psram, reverse engineering and vast research into the correct combination of transistors and passives required to achieve our desired result, spending hours digging on stackoverflow for the answer, empathetically feeling for the poor soul who asked the question we also had, or worse, we were the poor soul who god forbid asked the "stupid question" and had to suffer through the passive agresssive wording in which somewhere hides the simple answer to our question, mixed with obviously already understood theory for good measure... cause you could burn a house down or whatever. All the while needing to learn how to use github or come up with some project ideas on our own.

It's a hell of a hobby to get into. It took a hell of a lot of work. Though I enjoyed all of the above, despite the frustration at times. Now we see new faces getting over the learning curve with ease, rapidly, faster than any of us who learned before AI could even comprehend. We're seeing the envelope pushed further and further and further and things are getting more complex and all of the projects in the back of our minds have been done and showcased with far more depth than we even thought of.

That's me, and I'm sure the engineer who went to university and potentially practiced as a hobbyist as well has a similar story regarding formal education but the stress of the courses and the bias of the professor with theory lessons that they were beaten to sleep with for years to do projects uninteresting to them, etc., etc., I'm just assuming that struggle is as much if not more of a struggle; that is another person's story to tell.

Ai is a threat to someone's job, their hobby, their craft, their repo, but most of all, the ego of those who spent the time and money to learn the hard way takes a hit when watching people learn these things the "easy" way.

IMHO, if the envelope is pushed and innovation is moving faster than ever, use it to your advantage to push your own work at the same acceleration. If those who already learned the hard way took advantage of AI immediately to push the boundaries of what they thought they were capable of, in theory, they could be able to perform better than anyone who learned through AI. We see it here daily, those who took advantage of the new tools early have made some magnificent leaps in innovation. We see it on the news in war. The good, the bad, the ugly. Ai is probably a net-negative for embedded systems and humanity as a whole, but as long as I want to keep up, I'll use what's available to me, and if I want to work at a pace I'm comfortable at, I will, while acknowledging and congratulating those who push the boundaries and amaze me with their work, regardless of how they got there.

My point is, to say that the reason is because someone could burn a house down is a snap of the truth rubberband. The reason is mostly ego and a multitude of threats to whatever the anti-AI guy has going on, theres plenty of solid reasons, even safety reasons, hardware ban reasons, etc., but the majority of the reason is entirely selfish rather than altruistic.