What AI does is the exact polar opposite of "democratizing". We're going from a world where high-quality learning content is plastered all over the internet for free, where open-source projects are desperate for contributors and full of "good first issue" tickets, and where the tools you need to code can be run on any crappy laptop from the past 15 years—to a world where the majority of content about programming is unverified AI slop, where open-source projects are locking down access to protect against an avalanche of drive-by AI garbage, and where you need a $200/month subscription or a $3,000 GPU to run AI models for coding.