From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: TianMing Qin <qintianming511@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Advice Request] Seeking Guidance: How a Junior Software Engineer Survives and Rebuilds in the AI Era
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:00:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1w88Hv-0008JN-E9@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEpYPkqwfOApELMkvPt4ij0L1wMU7TtKk3NhS-oY8ac3nUUHMg@mail.gmail.com> (message from TianMing Qin on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:54:16 +0800)
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
The term "Artificial Intelligence" is a marketing hype campaign.
I refuse to use the term or accept it.
To declare that this is the "era of" that marketing term
is even more extreme hype. It declares a victory
that its proponents want us to consider inevitable.
Please join me in refusing to spread their hype.
I will write more to you privately later.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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