It's a South Park reference. It very much is equating the accent with stupidity and backwardness.

In their defense, they make fun of nearly everyone. But they definitely were mocking White Southerners there.

I subscribe to the second point of view. Several companies fall in that bucket. Oracle comes to mind.

That's what it was like when you started out, but did you eventually learn that code? Imagine constantly getting out back into square one on understanding a legacy code base you just inherited, forever. This is what it's be like with constant LLM-induced churn on code repositories.

Why can't they?

You probably mean necromancy.