There are different kinds of coding - web dev, low level coding, software, research, data science. There are some kinds of coding where carefully designing the architecture is important, and AI might not produce satisfactory code. Some kinds of coding, on the other hand, can benefit very strongly from AI. I suspect that many people who specialize in a particular area of coding form opinions based on how useful AI is in that area, and those opinions are perfectly valid for what coding means to them, but don't generalize to other people with different specializations.