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title: You Are Not Taken Seriously If You Are Not Doing or Talking About Artificial Intelligence
date: 2025-04-25T09:00:00.000Z
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  - AI
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Ethics
  - Bias
  - Environment
  - Business
  - Funding
  - Expertise
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I have heard this on LinkedIn for two years now, and continue to hear it said privately by people who aren’t AI believers, but due to their position in the market are forced to comply and have to put on an AI costume and assume an AI script. Many others I’ve talked to have chosen just to go completely silent on the subject and silently work on their regular API work behind the scenes-—stepping back from the spotlight. As with anything I am choosing to write my way through how I feel about the state of technology right now.

If you know me (which few do), you’ll know that I am pretty hard headed and don’t take to people telling me what to do. I am an expert with HTTP APIs, and you are going to tell me that if I don’t start talking about artificial intelligence I won’t be taken seriously? I am sure you are an expert or highly skilled in your area of work as well, and how do you feel about being told that what you do doesn’t matter and you should set that aside and focus on this current technological trend? Even if AI was all it is cracked up to be, why would this be a sensible approach to doing business, research, and professional discourse? It isn’t. It is anti-expert. It is anti-intellectual. It is authoritarian. It is coercicion.  It is blackmail  and collusion at a massive scale.

I don’t want to participate in any marketplace or enterprise that takes this approach to technology, and I am not interested in hanging out with people who accept this type of coercion at a professional level. I don’t care that it is where the money is at. I fully understand the impact this will have on my career and my business. I also fully understand the tax on your soul when you work under these conditions. I refuse to be compliant. If you are not taking me seriously when it comes to APIs because I am not doing artificial intelligence and talking about MCP then that is on you. I know my stuff when it comes to APIs, and if you think that knowledge has somehow becomes irrelevant because of what AI is doing, then that is on you. Let’s talk in five years and see where things stand, and how well you are doing versus, how well I am doing.

I am in a privileged position that I can choose to take a stance against artificial intelligence. While the repercussions are real when it comes to taking a stance against AI right now, I am guessing they are nowhere near as bad as you have built up in your head. I am guessing there are a lot of people like you out there who are experts that happen to be working somewhere where they are handcuffed and unable to speak freely. I am also guessing that if all y’all actually stood up and spoke your mind this AI hype cycle would come to a close, and you could get back to doing what you normally do. For me, and I am dead serious when I say this, beleive that AI is just entropy, and the “P” in API standards for people-—the most important thing we are losing when it comes to the shift towards AI. People are what matter the most here. In a labor sense, but also in craft, expertise, and care.