The split seems to be of at least a couple mindsets.

AI haters trend towards affection for the jargon, languages, and falling down that rabbit hole. They love Ruby, web apps, SaaS... the ecosystem of syntaxes. They love their job.

Those that dig AI see code as a historically necessary tool to get a machine to do a thing. I fall in this category.

I find the syntax and made up semantics boring, and doing interesting things with the machine interesting.

Ymmv but both online and in the real world I have only encountered these two schools of thought, as they say, when AI comes up.