Ask HN: Why is not using AI considered a form of arrogance?

We all have to do what we have to do. I don't consider the fact that people refuse to use AI necessarily arrogant, they merely have the choice at this stage.

There are some who exhibit arrogance/aggression and like to virtue signalling to us other mere mortals, which is annoying.

Nonetheless, I preferred life before LLMs. Now I'm making the best of a bad situation, and going with the flow. Too old to fight a losing battle.

I don’t consider it arrogant but people are free to choose what they utilize

It's less often arrogance and more often ideological. Some programmers, especially those in creative industries, feel the negative externalities of AI don't justify its use.

However, some programmers believe that "AI can't program" with their last time using an LLM was years ago, which is more ignorant of current trends than arrogant.

I don't code as such any more, but the obvious two reasons I see is that coders would avoid it is for copyright issues as well as, since one doesn't know what the llm was trained on, for not unwittingly [1] introducing a crafty not yet known to the public exploit.

[1] Assuming that if LLMs were that good, all code would presently be double checked and exploits and back doors will shortly coming to an end - unless the reason it hasn't is a marketing issue.

She lived long enough to see this miracle come to fruition and yet she doesn't want to check it out?