Stop trivialising AI: it’s not your intern, colleague or compiler

The AI Intern Illustrated TL;DR The metaphors we use for AI aren’t neutral — they reveal our professional insecurities and existential anxieties more than they describe the technology. The Patronisation Trap : Senior engineers call AI a “junior developer” or “intern” to preserve their status in the hierarchy. This creates a false capability ceiling and implies a human growth arc that doesn’t…