Anybody else getting really annoyed by the "if you don't use AI, you're done" narrative?
I'm reading a lot of tech news. Of course, most of it is just bullshit about CEOs pointing out how their product will revolutionize the world. Whatever.
I get that things are changing in IT. It's a lot but it's also just what it is. However, not only do I hate the "if you don't do this, you're done" narrative. But also, how the fuck can everybody just switch from manual coding to utilizing 10 AI agents? Have we completely forgot about finances? Tokens cost money for fucks sake.
The last few days, I've read about the Anthropic Claude Code guy stating he runs 1000 agents in the night. I've read about another former tech Google guy stating that if you're still coding manually, you're way behind. And besides marketing and capitalism, all I can think about is "what the fuck? Who can afford that?". Like, even if the general narrative of AI replacing coding skills were true, where is any kind of consideration about resources? Yea cool, run your fucking 1000 agents if you're free to spend any money in the world. But thinking about actual developers, who can spend that money? Most devs I know have a hard time even getting a "normal" subscription to any AI. I myself don't even get any because my employer doesn't deem it necessary..
Does anybody else feel like this is an extrodinary intensification of class conflict? Yea, if you have 1000s of dollars to spend monthly, you can create all the agents. But if you're even relatively normal, what you can do with a Claude Pro subscription is so much more limited.
I don't even want to discuss IF AI will replace this and that. What annoys me the most is that people are just talking about AI if it were a preference. It's fucking not. It starts with a preference if you want to use it or not, but then resources matter. If I wanted to do all my programming with AI, I COULD NOT. Because I'm too poor. So what does that say considering the Anthropic guy just told me that I'm done if I don't?