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So let me get this straight: developers spent TWO DECADES building the internet's knowledge base for FREE—tutorials, Stack Overflow answers, open-source libraries, documentation, GitHub repos—basically doing unpaid labor out of the goodness of their nerdy hearts. Then AI companies swooped in like digital vultures, scraped ALL of that beautiful free knowledge, trained their models on it, and now they're selling it back to us for $20/month subscriptions. And the AUDACITY doesn't stop there! Now these same AI tools are supposedly making developers "replaceable" even though they literally wouldn't exist without developers creating the training data in the first place. It's like if you wrote a cookbook, someone photocopied it, opened a restaurant using your recipes, became a billionaire, and then told you that chefs are obsolete. The irony is so thick you could deploy it to production.

So we've reached the point where companies are firing devs for not churning out enough PRs and not letting AI write their code. Because nothing says "quality software" like optimizing for quantity and letting a chatbot do your thinking. The absolute state of the industry right now: management discovered they can measure developer productivity by counting PRs like they're widgets on an assembly line. Nevermind that one well-architected PR could be worth fifty AI-generated spaghetti commits. And the "not using enough AI" part? Chef's kiss. Imagine getting fired because you had the audacity to actually understand the code you're writing instead of copy-pasting from ChatGPT. Next up: "Developer fired for thinking too much and not accepting Copilot suggestions fast enough." The future is here, and it's depressingly stupid.