Brown dogs chase cars != all dogs chase cars. And especially, != black dogs chase cars.

80s hobbiest programmers are GenX, and maybe most execs are GenX, but that doesn’t mean both groups share the same opinions.

Executives are not engineers. Not even the CTO

No, but that doesn't stop them from pushing vibe coded software at meetings and demanding it be put into production or otherwise regurgitating verbatim what their agents tell them.

Or worse, demanding you "use more ai" in your work because clients have been questioning whether the company is "all in on ai"

Additionally they likely never were "hobby programmers", so the specific generation (Gen-X) may be a match, the question was defined more specific.