Every time an evangelist takes the stage and cheerfully suggests offloading routine to neural networks, the IT community has a collective skeptical meltdown. The sighs, the sarcastic comments, the long threads about how speakers are detached from reality: "AI can't think," "it hallucinates," "who's going to rewrite this code?"
The complaints look strange for one reason. "Just give it to AI" is a metaphor compressed to fit a short clip. Nobody on stage means "press a button, go get coffee, and the algorithm builds you a spaceport." The literal reading belongs entirely to the listener — they invented it, got outraged by it, and won the argument against it.
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