I can support the "End of Programming" thesis from the standpoint that no one is still doing punch cards in binary against the CPU.

Higher level languages are great, but we all owe RSM a debt of gratitude for the FSF and keeping the source code within public view.

These closed AI models are akin to compiler vendors, in my view.

It doesn't take much economic analysis to realize that we disdain living on the vendors' various plantations.

That is, the "AI is just a tool" argument is subordinate to the need to keep freedom free.

End of rant.