so just to be totally clear AI is "democratizing" programming by taking something that used to free to do and making it so you pay a subscription fee to an American corporation to do it while being barred from ever actually understanding how it works, am I getting that right?
take it from me, an Arab from Arabia: when white men talk about bringing you "democracy" they're probably trying to kill you

@nasser In fairness, they’re usually trying to take your oil, usually violently.

But yes, getting people to subscribe to cognitive functions they would normally develop themselves is the final frontier for late-stage capitalism.