Eric S. Raymond posted an imagined 1940s scene of carpenters picketing with signs reading STOP POWER TOOLS while noting that power tools enabled new work previously impossible or too costly. He stated the post targeted resistance to AI coding assistants and confirmed he performed historical research before writing it. Scott Manley replied questioning how coding models trained on open source code with licenses meant to keep derivatives open. Other visible replies discussed opportunity costs of new tools and questioned whether AI functions as a precision instrument or produces sloppy results.