All the kids are chasing the AI money, so there's a lot of AI idiocy crowding out the good stuff. I don't get this take at all. AI is hardly something specific

All the kids are chasing the AI money, so there's a lot of AI idiocy crowding out the good stuff. I don't get this take at all. AI is hardly something specific to "the kids". Hell, AI has been the part of C.S. that I've been most interested in dating back to about 1992. And I'm creeping up on 50 real fast here. And I couldn't be more excited to see all the progress we've made in recent years, on the AI front. Now granted, there is a little bit of a "pop" in interest right now specifically around LLM's and the GPT-x stuff, and probably more than a few silly startups being spun up that aren't really contributing anything new. So if that's the "AI idiocy" you're talking about, then OK, that part I can get. But underneath all of that, there's some legitimately fascinating research going on and some really cool stuff happening. IMO, of course.