INTRODUCTION

The mental toll of deliberately not joining the party, not joining the fun, is
high. It's stressful. Sleepless nights. Worries about your future. It would be
so much easier to not give a damn about all the consequences.


                           But we do give a damn.


So, while we wait for the bubble to burst, let's instead have our own party.

Welcome to:


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WHAT IT IS (WORK IN PROGRESS)

The Naysayers Club is a loosely organised group of people making a living from
working with computers in various ways, who did not drink the Kool-Aid and
jumped on the "AI" hype train. Those that big brain "AI" evangelists for
several years have predicted will soon be "left behing in the dust".

The Naysayers Club is a place for "AI" sceptics to meet. A place for them to
meet like-minded people in an alienating world that often makes them feel very
alone with their beliefs and gut feelings about "AI".


                            You are not alone.


The Naysayers Club is a place to share experiences, fears, ideas, tactics. It's
a place to ask for advice when external factors try to impose the use of "AI"
on you daily work or in other ways expose you to "AI" in unwelcome and
undesired ways, when all you want to do is just do your damn work in a
meaningful way.


MANIFESTO (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Naysayers are people. Naysayers put people before computers.

Naysayers write code to express themselves.

Naysayers understand that code is not just instructions for a computer, but
also – and more importantly – an onging, ever evolving conversation with other
people working on the same codebase.

Naysayers are IT workers who in their hearts feel that what they do is an
artisanal craft.

Naysayers do not find any joy in letting a computer take over the creative part
of their work.

Naysayers see the value in code not written.

Naysayers have doubts about their beliefs and knows that it's a natural 

Naysayers realise that the "AI" hype is just another tech fad, as we've seen
them come and go over the years.

With Big Slop weaponising our code against us, members of The Naysayers Club
increasingly have to consider following the ancient advice from Wargames: