I have a friend. He's very passionate about trains, and he worked his entire career in and around them. Some time ago we had an incident where entire railway in

I have a friend. He's very passionate about trains, and he worked his entire career in and around them. Some time ago we had an incident where entire railway in the region had to be shut down for some time because the computer managing the traffic broke. Big fuckup because lots of people rely on railway. My friend instantly started complaining with visible satisfaction "See? Computers are shit! Back in my days everything was done manually and that was great! We never had such outages!". What my friend is incapable of understanding is that it's simply not possible to manage traffic at scale using humans, and it's much better and safer to do this using computers. When he was young, there was much less traffic, and delays were much more frequent. The core issue is that he doesn't really understand computers, and because he's old, there's no chance he'll learn a new technology, so he's very distrustful towards computers. Not to mention that modern UX is about enshittification, so it does take some skill to navigate the technology, especially mobile - he trips over things that I consider extremely basic like "this is an ad, don't click this". I have a similar feeling when reading discussions about AI on this website. Most people here refuse to appreciate AI because "back in my days...". Well, the future is here, old man, adapt or perish. Programming using AI is a completely new paradigm that requires completely new approach and new skills. Either you learn them or you'll be left behind, whether you like it or not - back in 2010's all you had to do to get a lucrative software job was to show that you knew how to use google because most people refused that. I suspect that when the dust settles, something similar will happen with AI, and people who know how to extract maximum value from it will be rewarded handsomely.