Re: [Advice Request] Seeking Guidance: How a Junior Software Engineer Survives and Rebuilds in the AI Era

Richard Stallman <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:00:07 -0400
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The term "Artificial Intelligence" is a marketing hype campaign.
I refuse to use the term or accept it.

To declare that this is the "era of" that marketing term
is even more extreme hype.  It declares a victory
that its proponents want us to consider inevitable.

Please join me in refusing to spread their hype.

I will write more to you privately later.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)