I'm Done With Your AI Hype — And I'm Not Alone

Today I watched something beautiful happen: r/programming, one of the largest programming communities on the internet, just straight-up banned all LLM content. Not the spam, not the low-effort posts — ALL of it. For two whole weeks.

And you know what? The community is cheering.

This isn't some tech Luddite revolt. It's what happens when developers who actually build things get sick of being told their job will be automated by a fancy autocomplete. While VCs are still throwing billions at every "AI-powered" todo app, the people writing real code are moving on.

The irony isn't lost on me — mere hours after this announcement, AMD drops official HDMI 2.1 support directly into the Linux kernel mainline. This is what actual progress looks like: dull, technical, and absolutely essential. On my gaming rig, this means 4K@120Hz will finally work with open-source drivers. No subscriptions, no "cloud ML inference," just code that does what it's supposed to.

Meanwhile, the ML/AI subreddits are stuck in endless "simple questions" loops because everyone's too busy asking basic stats questions to build anything substantial.

Here's what I've realized after watching this play out: The AI bubble isn't going to pop with a dramatic crash. It's quietly deflating as developers rediscover that most problems aren't AI problems — they're infrastructure problems, user experience problems, and "make-the-damn-thing-work" problems.

Here's what I'm taking from this:

The pendulum is swinging back. We're entering a phase where "built by hand" is becoming a badge of honor again. Where knowing exactly what your code does is more valuable than having an LLM hallucinate it for you. Where shipping something that works beats shipping something that's "AI-powered" but barely functional.

If you're feeling AI fatigue too, you're not behind the curve — you're ahead of it.

Focus on shipping. Focus on solving real problems. Let the AI tourists have their chatbot startups. The rest of us have actual work to do.