Funny enough, you're not the first one who's also noticed this. A couple years ago, me and a colleague (in helpdesk) shared our YouTube subscriptions and found 80% of them matched, and he introduced me to such channels like Usagi Electric.
I do otherwise tend to notice comments on one channel's videos make references to other channels I also watch (outside of the usual Bringus Studios and DankPods references), so I tend to think I'm part of a larger niche of Gen Z / Millenial computer geeks.
Some ones I haven't seen yet:
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If I'm completely honest, I've felt that with my own use of AI and it's my primary driver in reducing or outright avoiding its use personally - I'm not learning anything when it codes up crap that barely works, and then debugging that crap later on is a nightmare because I don't have the requisite experience.
In IT, you see people do things the hard way so often because it's what they know and figured out, and changing over to an easy way requires them to relearn and change their workflow, which they just don't see the point in.
You've already suggested to them there's a better and easier way to do what they need with existing tools instead of AI and they've turned it down - I would say leave it there. Something something leading horses to waters.
I'm not an experienced developer, I've just done stuff in Java and Python before, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
If we're strictly talking interfaces, most modern software is a web browser showing you their interface made in HTML. Common ones that come to mind include Discord, Microsoft Teams and Spotify. You can usually tell from how hovering over action buttons always results in a pointing hand cursor, and how absolutely sluggish they run even on decent hardware. This is often done with Electron, and these apps are often called Electron apps.
The problem with this is that now you're not running a native application with minimal overhead, you're running a whole ass web engine
This is (probably, IMO) because it's much easier to hire a frontend web developer and have them do up an interface, than have a dedicated backend developer do it for whatever window library. It also makes it easy to port the app to many systems (including mobile) given how HTML5, CSS and JS all can be made to work on any platform that can run a web engine.
I also imagine that it makes the user interface consistent to the company's brand, rather than consistent to your operating system. If you look at Discord on Windows, macOS and Linux, it looks almost identical on all three except for only where necessary such as the top window border. Meanwhile if you look at LibreOffice (native application) on Windows, macOS and Linux, the window styling is completely different per system.
Update I realise after posting that I never otherwise explained other performance considerations outside of the interface - but I hope that just briefly going into interfaces gives a good idea already for software. If you are talking games, then that's a whole separate conversation
Might qualify more for !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world but I recently replaced the oxygen sensor on my Subaru all on my own, after 3 years of putting up with a check engine light.