>It is as if the industry has decided to focus on AI and nothing else.

I mean, isn't this exactly what happened? I could be wrong about this, but didn't ycombinator themselves say they weren't accepting any ideas that didn't include AI?

80 percent of the jobs people reach out to me for are shady AI jobs that I have no interest in. Hiring in other non-AI jobs seems to have slowed.

When I talk to "computer" people, they only want to talk about AI. I wish I could quit computers and never look at a screen again.