[codingdave]

> but not many will want to work at a tech company today that doesn’t provide top tier AI tooling,

wat. No. There are plenty of devs who hate how AI is changing the work, and would be thrilled to go back to the old ways. I am seeing so many arguments that amount to "We all have to use AI because... we all have to use AI." People start with the assumption that AI will take over and then use that to work backwards and prove that we all must use it for everything.

If anything, we're starting to see the opposite. I'm hearing more and more discussions from my clients that the increasing cost is not sustainable, and the increase in problems is not the result they were hoping for.

There is a strong argument that such clients aren't using agentic processes correctly. But at the same time, when I show them how to improve such processes, the bills go even higher.

We have not yet landed on the tools and processes that will make AI take over all work. Nor have we proven that such a scenario is inevitable.