The anti-AI crowd is giving “real farmers don’t use tractors” energy, and it’s getting old.

Look, I get it. “AI slop” is everywhere. Bad AI art, hollow AI writing, shitty music being generated, chatbots regurgitating nonsense. There’s plenty to criticize. But I’m noticing a legitimate critique is slowly turning into a tribal identity, and now reflexively hating anything AI-adjacent has become the intellectually lazy default for a lot of people online. The thing is, we’ve been here before. When the mechanical tractor started replacing horse-drawn plows in the early 20th century, farmers were genuinely angry. This wasn’t real farming. It was cheating. It would ruin the craft.