People often say that "the genie is already out of the bottle" and can't be put back in.
But the news that Anthropic made its latest model unavailable across Europe shows how control over technology, or the lack of ownership of it, can completely reshape the playing field.
Feels like people are using it as a shortcut to dismiss products they don t like.
At the end of the day, devs have always relied on tools to go faster, frameworks, libraries, Stack Overflow, templates, all of it. AI is just the next step in that chain. Typing code was never the hard part anyway. Understanding what to build, making the right product calls, and handling messy edge cases is where the real work is.
AI doesn t change good vs bad builders, it just changes speed.
