Comment by burnt-resistor

This is pissing into the wind because in, the long run, AI will write the functionality it wanted to use instead because there are no magic or special libraries. Furthermore, it will eventually (over a long enough timescale) eat deeper down the stack by writing programming languages (with most incomprehensible to humans*), designing chips, designing systems, deploying code, planning datacenters, and designing products... this the manifestation of a gradual technological "singularity".

* This is how billionaire techbros will finally push most humans out of tech.

All they're doing now by putting up roadblocks is collectively punishing humans from competing with AI.

On the other side of the token, don't give away things and expect payment. Give things away because it's cool, not as a primary survival strategy based on mythological expectations of gratuity. It comes across as bitter giver's remorse. And unprofessional poison spewed onto social media also wrecks their professional reputation and drives customers away.