Some of the better surviving meetups focus less on a common tool than on a shared problem (like regulatory capture) or a colaborative activity (let's update our neighborhood's Wikipedia related pages).
As the cost of AI answers/work continues to soar 10x then another 10x, and you pay another 10x for corrected better answers, price pressure should slow slop's spew.
Beyond demography, Much of this depends on public policy and execution. Will more of us live in conditions that prevent a oidable death or injury? Or another way?
Yes, it looks like this project is starting with helping highly motivated adult learners go deep into a hard to teach/learn material. Contrast this with the Khan Academy approach at https://www.khanmigo.ai/ targeting young students and their teachers and parents with broad assistance across subjects. Maybe they converge?
Yes. The act of parsing code for yourself, for gisting it, and thinking about it - that's what makes you think better and build skill. Discussing why and different ways of doing it with others - that builds team wisdom. AI might help with organizing a review and timeboxing, clerical support, but the actual work of the review should be left to people.