Nobody Wants to Learn AI

The “lifelong learner” identity isn’t aspiration. It’s a subscription you can’t cancel. Last week, someone in your feed posted about being "thrilled to build AI agents this weekend." Forty-seven likes. Fire emojis. "Love the growth mindset!" You stared at it and felt something you couldn't name. Not jealousy. Not inspiration. Something closer to recognition. The way you recognize a mask because you're wearing the same one. Nobody is thrilled to learn agent frameworks on a Saturday. They're afraid of what happens if they don't. You probably have your own version of this. A browser tab you keep meaning to open. A course you bookmarked during a sale and never started. A Slack thread about "AI readiness" that you skimmed and closed. The quiet admission that you don't know enough to stay relevant, and the quieter admission that bookmarking the resource let you feel like you were doing something about it. You've been writing production code for years. By most reasonable measures, you know wh