People riding horses in the age of automobiles are the one's who need 'luck'.
But you’re also never going to convince the people who still only run vi on the Linux console, without Xorg…
Edit: I have my popcorn ready for when the VC subsidies end.
Do you even know what your job is?
Your job as a developer is not to produce brilliant code - it's to produce code that is so standard, disciplined, off-the-shelf and normative that it's utterly boring.
That is exactly what the AI is good at - 'the boring standard'.
-> AI is not harming anyone's cognitive abilities.
-> Cost of AI is marginal - $200/mo for a tool while devs earn >>$100K, is the cost of tires on a car
-> Token prices are dropping by 90% per year, today's AI is already pretty good, it will be a commodity soon, but we'll continue to pay probably even more than $200/mo because the value is there.
I taught myself BASIC in the 1980's and there's code I wrote in the 1990's that is literally still in production to this day. There's probably a decent chance that I've had code in production since before you were born. Over the span of those decades, it's very clear that there's a fundamental transformation, which is totally unassailable.