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The reason I think it's important to spread the message that using modern AI tools is difficult is that I don't want people being embarrassed to ask questions about how to use them - or quietly assuming they "aren't smart enough" and giving up

(I get so sad when I hear people dismiss their own ability to learn things, I expect that the real problem is that they were given an inaccurate mental model of the level of difficulty involved and how much work they would need to put in - I see this for learning to program all the time)

I feel like there is a split in the community, I've tried AI enough in a coding context to know it will never be safe to use so I wouldnt want to work with or consider someone who uses it a programmer personally

I'd say that's like me using Google translate to write this post in English

Let alone all the gdpr and ip issues hallucinations, out of date syntax, ethical issues, cost issues

Hallucinations, cost and out of date syntax don't matter for code: if it hallucinates the code won't work and you'll catch it in review/manual testing, cost is infinitesimally small these days, out of syntax is easily solved by showing it fresh examples The training ethics remain very shady though!