... nothing terribly unique about "edtech".

Videos. Text. Forms. Reporting. Not too difficult to just use generic parts to assemble a whole.

Eh, I do (unless I'm emailing some stodgy unknown who might be offended)

A smile indicates that I am, you know, smiling. A laugh indicates that I am joking. Context is provided; communication is improved.

My coworkers and our clients seem to take me seriously {shrugging faux emoji here, lol}

Which part of the planet? Rotherham, say?

... that I was so special (eye roll).

Or, just maybe, you aren't counting everybody, just large companies.

Yep, exactly.

It's popular for some of the cool kids to posture and kvetch about it right now, but no, normal people really don't care - as long as it's a good game.

To be honest, I didn't much care for movie going then either, lol. But the wait for some other method for any given movie was considerably longer.

Society itself has changed.

For the shared movie going experience in a theater to be enjoyable, that depends on most people following largely unwritten and unenforceable (except socially) rules. And we mostly don't have that anymore, as a society.

Ah, well, with a huge screen I imagine it might matter more, yeah :)

That's another thing I've never got into. Our living room and bedroom are small-ish, or medium-ish at most; I really can't imagine using a huge TV screen in them. I never really understood the whole "cover your wall with a TV screen" thing :D

Similar to TV that way. Graphics are overblown.

When digital and hi-def TV came out, I was like "eh, seeing the actors' pores isn't going to improve anything. Good plots and characterization would." And so it is with games as well.

I'm not sure what age you think that is, but this semi-old guy won't be watching it because I don't want to. It's pointless and boring.

(And I'm not sure that I know of anyone, no matter how old, who "doesn't know how" to use YouTube.)

I've had fewer problems with PayPal than with any bank, lol. After decades of financial activity.

I dunno; it seems to have worked for smoking. Use and demand fell massively, social approval vanished, now pretty much only losers smoke.

It could be argued, but that would be pretty silly, as the demand is clearly there to begin with, and couldn't really be any larger.

So ... super cheap code monkeys are being replaced by LLMs?

There really isn't any other way to read that.