[raw_anon_1111]

Asking to have a tech forum in 2026 that doesn’t discuss AI is about as much of a Luddite as asking about having tech forum anytime in the past 25 years that doesn’t discuss the internet or the 15 that doesn’t discuss mobile.

Absolutely everything in tech is touched by AI/ML in 2026 except micro controllers/embedded systems

On another note - YC 25 batch

https://www.extruct.ai/data-room/ycombinator-companies-s25/

YC 24 batch

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E...

On a personal note, I lead cloud + app dev implementations for a consulting company. I’ve had 5 projects since the beginning of last year and they have all involved Amazon hosted LLMs in some form or fashion.

Every single project I’ve been brought in with at pre sales has also involved Gen AI and/or traditional ML.

[subsection1h]

There are plenty of tech forums that don't discuss AI. I think your confusion might be the result of you equating tech with "writing code for employers."

By the way, have you seriously never written[1] so much as a single backup script to back up a personal system? You only use GUI backup software?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634535#:~:text=As%20f...

[raw_anon_1111]

I haven’t actually used my personal computer for much after graduating from college.

1. To access the internet

2. To download music from Napster and later iTunes and to create mix CDs and later for my iPod

3. To mix music with CoolEdit (bought by Adobe as Adobe Audition) - I was a fitness instructor and created my own 32 bpm beat synchronized music

4. As a home media theater PC (Mac Mini + Front Row) and later a media server (Plex)

My backup was running BackBlaze. When we moved and I decided Plex + bit torrent wasn’t worth the hassle, I did a one time “aws s3 -sync…” and copied my 2TB of media to AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive in my personal account. I’ve opened my personal computer - that I only bought for a one time contract for a former CTO/friend when I was between jobs for a month.

[add-sub-mul-div]

Yes we already know it's omnipresent, that's the point. Some would rather lead in a different direction than follow like NPCs.

[raw_anon_1111]

I too wish the world hadn’t moved on from when I started programming on a 1Mhz Apple //e in 1986 or from my first job as a Fortran and C programmer on DEC Vax and stratus VOS mainframes…

I also loved programming on these in 2007 using Windows Compact Framework.

https://weareconker.com/blog/is-windows-ce-still-supported-i...

But after being in this game for 30 years professionally and after half century of living on this earth, I still haven’t overcome my addictions to food and shelter and while I’m in pretty good shape, I don’t think I could start a successful career by opening an OnlyFans account so instead, I keep up to date on where the industry is…

[kazinator]

Touching on a subject doesn't make something directly topical.

Makefiles touch on C programming; they are not topical in a C language forum.

Most AI discussion as a tangent to another topic is utterly unproductive, uninteresting, repetitive and off-topic. The same half a dozen points are rehashed. Most of the commentary is someone's subjective experience which nobody else can exactly replicate.

Almost everything in tech runs on switching power supplies. That doesn't mean tech forums on all subjects should tolerate intruders incessantly blathering about power supplies.

[raw_anon_1111]

Actually, talking about power in the age of AI is a big deal. It will either drive up energy cost or drive down energy cost.

80% of the companies that YC funding are AI something or the other. If your career has anything to do with technology - you are or will be directly affected by AI.

Would you have felt the same way if people complained about all of the discussions about mobile around 2009-2010? People on Usenet complaining about the browser was going to usurp the need for Gopher servers?

[stephenr]

> I’ve had 5 projects since the beginning of last year and they have all involved Amazon hosted LLMs in some form or fashion.

Cargo cultists are going to cargo cult.