Comment by madrox

I got my first tech job in 2001. I've been doing this a while and ridden all the waves.

There are two kinds of waves. The ones that don't require collective belief in them to succeed, and those that do.

The latter are kinds like crypto and social media. The former is mobile...and AI.

If no one else in the world had access to AI except me, I would appear superhuman to everyone in the world. People would see my level of output and be utterly shocked at how I can do so much so quickly. It doesn't matter if others don't use AI for me to appreciate AI. In fact, the more other people don't use AI, the better it works out for me.

I'm sympathetic to people who feel like they are against it on principle because scummy influencers are talking about it, but I don't think they're doing themselves any favors.