Let's add to this comparison a bit.
Said farm workers have also been noticing headlines over the last years like:
"Crop harvester CEO predicts crop harvesting machine will wipe out millions of jobs within months"
"Crop harvester CEO: 'the crop harvester could destroy the world economy'."
"Farm lays off half its employees, pivots to crop harvester" (repeat this one about 10 times a week for months)
Then some idiot walks up to a crowd of farm hands talking about how awesome the crop harvester is.
No shit he's going to get booed lmao. He's fucking lucky they're not beating his ass into a shallow grave.
The harvester is super expensive, using an LLM is not.
Who’s to say AI is not a democratizing force? Like the Internet? And book printing before that? Suddenly we all have a Personal Assistant, suddenly we can all build tools to make the computer do what we want.
Hey where is Stephen Fry with his podcasts when you need him!