For some reason I liked reading about Rust (or any other technology) a lot more that the AI.
Part of it is that, the average engineer could understand and grok what those articles were talking about, and I could appreciate, relate, and if applicable criticize it.
The AI news just seems to swing between hype and doomsday prophecies, and little discussion about the technical aspects of it.
Obviously OpenAI choosing to keep it closed source makes any in-depth discussion close to impossible, but also some of this is so beyond the capabilities of an average engineer with a laptop. It can be frustrating.
Every fart some AI related person makes becomes a huge news. And it's followed by tens of random blog postings all posted to HN.