Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

Summary

At serious risk of sounding like a heretic here, but I’m kinda bored of talking about AI.I get it, AI is incredible. I use it every day, it’s completely changed my workflow. I recently started a new role in a tricky domain working at web scale (hey, remember web scale?) and it’s allowed me to go from 0-1 in terms of productivity in a matter of weeks.With that being said, it’s all starting to feel a bit… routine. I’m not here to argue that the pace of change has been incredible, but on a day-to-day basis I’ve sorta ran out of things to talk about. What makes this worse is it’s completely taken over mindshare across my section of the internet.Hacker News, my favourite haunt, used to be full of interesting projects and problems being solved but this seems to have devolved into three different people’s (almost identical) Claude code workflow and yet another post about how you got OpenClaw to stroke your cat and play video games so you had way more time to… configure AI tooling. This all feels a little self-fulfilling.Kagi small web is another great example of this effect. Here’s a challenge, open it up and press the ‘next’ button 20 times. What percentage of posts are AI related?Before you write me off as ‘old man yells at cloud’, understand where I’m coming from. In the good old days (2023), before we called anybody who could open a Claude code terminal an ‘AI engineer’, being a ‘Product Engineer’ was the hot new term. The idea was that engineers should move away from obsessing over code to obsessing over the product value they were delivering. I loved this, it made loads of sense to me, but we seem to have regressed. It’s no longer the code we’re obsessing over, it’s the overgrown auto-complete we’ve developed to make the easiest part of being an engineer easier.It’s like if I went onto the woodworking subreddit and they’d all stopped showing pictures of the tables they’d created and just started posting about the hammer they were using. But they were all using basica...