I feel ya.

Most of my friends from high school and college are dead from random cancers, or drugs, or both.

I used to love skimming the new preprints on arXiv in the morning but now the signal is buried LLM drivel.

The one hobby I have that is kinda LLM-proof for now is speedrunning. Tool-assisted speedruns have always had their own categories for decades, and even if the LLMs or their descendants are used for routing or glitch hunting there’s still an element of human execution.