Fear is not advocacy

AI advocates seem to be the only kind of technology advocates who feel this imminent urge to constantly criticize developers for not being excited enough about their tech.

It would be crazy if I presented new Go features like this:

If you still don't use the synctest package, all your systems will eventually succumb to concurrency bugs.

or

If you don't use iterators, you have absolutely nothing interesting to build.

The job of an advocate is to spark interest, not to reproach people or instill FOMO. And yet that's exactly what AI advocates do.

What a weird way to advocate.

It's okay not to be early

This whole "devote your life to AI right now, or you'll be out of a job soon" narrative is false.

You don't have to be a world-class algorithm expert to write good software. You don't have to be a Linux expert to use containers. And you don't have to spend all your time now trying to become an expert in chasing ever-changing AI tech.

As with any new technology, developers adopting AI typically fall into four groups: early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Right now, AI advocates are trying to shame everyone into becoming early adopters. But it's perfectly okay to wait if you're sceptical. Being part of the late majority is a safe and reasonable choice. If anything, you'll have fewer bugs to deal with.

As the industry adopts AI practices, you'll naturally absorb just the right amount of them.

You are going to be fine.

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