Changed their opinion/public stance completely sometimes only months apart. For example "I love programming" to "if you aren't with AI you are behind" within maybe only 6 months time. Its almost like anyone with any public opinion in software is being paid to say it now and boost the AI hype.

Yeah, I'm surprised by this. The pragmatic engineer publication is full of them.

It may be that most of these people only see the benefits, or don't think they'll be adversely affected by this.