> I used to go to a lot of industry events and I really enjoyed hearing about the diversity of different things people worked on both as a hobby and at work.

I go to tech meetups regularly. The speed at which any conversation end up on the topic of AI is extremely grating to me. No more discussions about interesting problems and creative solutions that people come up with. It's all just AI, agentic, vibe code.

At what point are we going to see the loss of practical skills if people keep on relying on LLMs for all their thinking?

> No more discussions about interesting problems and creative solutions that people come up with. It's all just AI, agentic, vibe code.

And then you give in and ask what they're building with AI, that activation energy finally available to build the side project they wouldn't have built otherwise.

"Oh, I'm building a custom agentic harness!"

...

It's like the entire software industry is gambling on "LLMs will get better faster than human skills will decay, so they will be good enough to clean up their own slop before things really fall apart".

I can't even say that's definitely a losing bet-- it could very well happen-- but boy does it seem risky to go all-in on it.