Those people will never reach mastery, because they no longer make choices, they no longer take responsibility for mistakes in coding and no longer learn from those mistakes. It’s the AI that’s making mistakes now, the AI doesn’t learn from those mistakes, and neither are the people relying on AI for coding.

Just to give a hot take, it's funny to look at his builtwith.com. As a developer you have a static site that depends on Cloudflare, Mailchimp, Postmark, Isso ...

Twenty years ago any self-respecting dev would have run the equivalent of all that themselves on their own metal. In 2026 elite neckbeard practice is write the "never reach mastery, because they no longer make choices, they no longer take responsibility" post, hit "publish" and it's magically deployed around the global internet for you. Like a child.

In the future we will see more and more companies proudly boasting their “NO-AI” policy as a competitive advantage. And they will be right.

Yes, a "NO-CLOUD" policy was already so popular, surely this will happen too.

https://builtwith.com/alexn.org