AI has made it trivially easy to produce content, and the result is a flood of generic, shallow material that exists to fill space rather than help anyone. People have started calling this "AI slop," and the term captures something real. Recycled tutorials, SEO-bait blog posts, content that says nothing you couldn't get by asking a chatbot directly. There's a lot of it, and it's getting worse.
When I moved to VMware, I expected things to continue much as before, but COVID disrupted those plans. When Broadcom acquired VMware, the writing was on the wall and though it took a while, I eventually got made redundant. That was almost 18 months ago. In the time since, I've taken an extended break with overseas travel and thoughts of early retirement. It's been a while therefore since I've done any direct developer advocacy.