"Some developers have fundamental objections to AI in their coding process—whether it's concerns about training data, environmental impact, or philosophical rea

"Some developers have fundamental objections to AI in their coding process—whether it's concerns about training data, environmental impact, or philosophical reasons about machine-generated code." not only that, there's the "jesus christ fuck off" angle. Stop bullying me into using AI when it serves you, not me. Every goddamn surface wants me to click on their "write your email like a fake idiot" button because they get to report X% WAU uptick which is supposed to vaguely correlate with revenue/growth somehow according to some stupid metric. But no matter how much you can twist reality to justify it financially the fact remains that shoving features in your users' face is not the best user experience you could have made, because you could have not done it. Good designers (...picture your platonic ideal of Jobs-era Apple, not that it was actually perfect but it was better than this shit...) would never do that. If only we lived in a world where there was enough market pressure to annihilate a company for designing things badly---unfortunately no one is competing on that angle yet (big opportunity, imo). In the meantime we just have to ask, nicely and then angrily: please, god, fuck off. It should not take angrily asking, or finding leverage, in order to get you to be respectful. You should be respectful by default.