> you're going to get left behind.

What's wrong with that? Why do you fear getting left behind? This is just fearmongering.

Mind you these are legitimate interests of people and in most of cases probably not related to professional work.

And lol @ "It's 2026, the AI will write a compiler in 5 minutes, no headache required.", no it will not, have you seen Anthropic's post about Claude writing the "C compiler"?