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

From: Richard Stallman

Date: Wed Apr 01 2026 - 23:03:54 EST


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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)