I'm having quite some (zero) fun right now trying to contact engineers who are building applications that have fairly advanced AI tooling backing them. Think: AI website builders, research apps, etc. Obviously I'm getting basically zero response by mailing folks asking them an open ended question about their experience building stuff.

I just want to have a chat with them about what was easy or hard to build without trying to sell them something, but I would probably also ignore the mails that I am sending out. When everything is noise, slop, and sales pitches; it's hard to come across as someone who just wants to have a tech chat.