AI is just the next round of the same evolution we've always had

I find companies that take pride in not using AI at all, not special. It's where we are right now, and one way or another, AI makes work easier. So whatever stance they think they're taking, it reads as backwards to me. Unless you're a company literally building AI models, that's a different, fair conversation.

I'm aware this pattern goes way back, probably as far back as evolution itself. But I'll stick to what I've actually watched happen.

CSS frameworks

I remember when Bootstrap came into the picture. A lot of people bought in, some still chose to stick with vanilla CSS. Then Tailwind came along, and now vanilla CSS falls behind when it comes to styling speed and consistency. Different libraries and components keep getting adopted for projects, that's just the pattern.

JS and frontend

Same thing happened with JavaScript. It started as pure JS for interactivity, then jQuery came in to make work easier. Now frameworks are what people predominantly use to build frontend apps. People rarely write big projects in pure HTML, CSS, and JS anymore.

And people did not stop building projects, evolution just kicked in.

Backend and ML

Similar story, though not identical, on the backend. We don't start from scratch every time we build with a programming language, frameworks exist so we don't have to. Nobody's using requests or urllib to build backend applications, that's exactly why Django and Flask exist. Tools like TensorFlow exist for building models.

Where the skill actually is now

AI eliminates manual typing and assists the thought process. But the skillset now lies in implementation of concepts, judgement, and choosing between approaches. That's where the person comes in, and that part hasn't changed.

Some people and companies still take pride in “human-made,” and that's fine, it's a valid choice to make. But I genuinely don't see any serious company kicking back at AI. This is evolution playing out again, same as it always has, and I see no fault in growing with it.