AI is already reshaping our industry, but the “learn AI or get left behind” narrative being shoved down our throats misses the real story. This isn’t about whether AI will change development or creative work — it’s about who gets to decide how those changes happen. We’ll look at history and explore why individual adaptation strategies feel inadequate against systemic forces, and discover what collective responses actually look like when we organize around the technology that affects our work. We do have power and agency and this is how we can use it.