I want to expand on your sentiment about our pre-AI mindset. Programming has made it easy to do things of essentially no value, while getting lots of money for it. Programming is additive and creative; we can always go further in modelling the world and creating chunks of it to use. But I don't see the value in the newest CRUD fullstack application or website. I don't see the intellectual stimulation or even a reasonable amount of user benefit. Programming allows us to produce a lot, but we should be scrutinizing what that lot is. "AI" that enhances what we've been doing will just continue this dull industry. Greed and a nebulous sense of progress are the primary drivers, but they're empty behind it all. Isn't progress supposed to be about good change? We should be focusing on passion projects and/or genuinely helping, or better yet elevating, users (that is to say, everyone).