I think it is a 'cult' but also at the same time the inevitable future of engineering. The cult part are a subset of people who are not thinking about LLM code generation critically and blindly follow whatever trend is popular at this exact second.

The worst thing is that everyone but them knows how easy it is to take advantage of their blind hate. News companies, podcasts, and bloggers (such as this one) know they can just twist the thumbscrew and say "AI bad!" then rake in thousands of views/subs without even having to give a substantial argument.