I've gone back to just calling people on the phone like a true savage.
Weirdly, and MAYBE tangentially related to AI, me too.
I've been driving my friends nuts cuz we're all neurodivergent little goblin people and now I just call them. And they aren't actually mad they're just like "what's wrong with you" and it's just like, look, sometimes I just need a fuckin answer to a fuckin question, and faster is better. And phone calls are instant.
I think they're coming around now cuz two of em do it to me.
Unfortunately that's not enough, voice AI is very good nowadays,