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tl;dr: those of us not heavily invested in AI need "convincing" because the technology is almost all down-side with little up-side.

We can start with bosses imposing which tools we use. We usually don't like that. Especially when these mandates are accompanied by unreasonable expectations (productivity will increase by 50%! You'll become a 10x developer!). Now you're under even more pressure than before, with no real possibility of satisfying those expectations. Makes for a wonderful work environment, I'm sure.

Follow that up with the extremely negative social externalities AI brings to the table: resource exploitation in poorer neighborhoods, labor exploitation in poor nations, etc. In WV, where I live, the legislature have already stripped communities of their political rights, with the goal of being more "data-center friendly", which to me sums up AI rather nicely: an anti-democratic, anti-people, big-investor-friendly technology.

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I would have given the same answer. I try every tool out there and I have the experience to know if its useful. I'm an old fart but I'm smart enough to understand that I get great value from my paid software (fonts, software, or subscriptions like JetBrains).

Managers don't know how to code and now give us ridiculous technical advice. We know that they only care about money and don't understand a thing about features.

Last but not least, we get twice more work for the same salary. There is no world where this make sense.