@RickiTarr I've felt this way about the 4th for a long lime. I usually find ways to appreciate the part of the celebration that it about being with friends, and fume silently about the rest.

@remixtures unfortunately this gives AI bros another tool to manipulate the narrative. The playbook for AI bros will be:

Compare AI productivity to post-AI productivity (rather than pre-AI productivity) to show how "necessary" it is for professionals to "be at their best"

We have to be prepared to counter that narrative, and talking about skill erosion is something.

Making that clear connection between skill erosion and limited/rescinded availability is key. AI will not always be cheap. In fact, it's more expensive even now that most people realize.