What’s the exciting thing you’re looking forward to in the field of tech? When I look within FAANG and related companies, I’m seeing the emphasis is mostly on growth or retention within the existing tech and a few new testing grounds like self-driving cars, AR/VR, etc. For existing tech, it feels the same iPhone/Pixel N+1, TikTok v/s Instagram, Uber/Airbnb business model, AWS v/s Azure etc year after year. There are algo and service improvements behind the scenes but it doesn’t reflect as new usecases to the customers (me). What’s the next interesting thing you find in the tech space? So far I only know about self-driving cars and AR/VR, I’d like to learn more. TC: $315k #tech #FAANG
Fuchsia is an exciting and ambitious project.
What’s it?
New OS with a new kernel (Zircon) Preddy kool, check its website
6G SpaceX / Starlink AI
Lots of applied AI stuff.
Retirement
Webassembly to replace containers
Nope… not actually… we used to have only linux containers with inbuilt cgroups and namespaces supports… windows containers need a hyperviosor to be installed and was huge mess for a while… (it’s getting better now) …i think the goal is to add OS level api support for webassembly and create sanboxing environments
Webassebly is far more than frontend.. look at ICP /Solana crypto project.. which is making use of webassembly for backend sandboxing
I'm at 18 YOE. And tech has moved forward a lot in my time as a developer. Honestly nothing is that exciting anymore. I wouldn't be shocked if we go into a span of decades where not too many advancements even happen. There's been many other times in human history where basically not much advanced for centuries
Yeah, that’s what I have been feeling too. I have 6 YOE but I have been a tech nerd as a consumer from a very long time. I thought I’m finding it less exciting because I’m more involved in this field with increasing YOE. But your sentiment does suggest that there is indeed no “wow” factor anymore. I do get wowed by sustainable projects - like 3D printing house, vertical farming, etc. but it’s too nascent at the moment to hop into that field and add tech into it.
AI assisted software development is a an emerging field. GitHub Copilot is proof of concept. Applied Robotics has potential to get big. Still need some big breakthroughs, but at some point, a roomba will look quaint, and every house will have a robotic “maid”. Tech applied to old stodgy industries - eg, farming, construction…. There’s a Seattle company that’s using drones to replant forests, and another that’s using AI and lasers to kill weeds in fields. And another using ai to identify rocks in a field and move them. And there’s a company doing drones + cameras for automated inspection and records of large construction projects (ie, we’re things built to plan at appropriate quality level). Quantum computing is emerging, not sure where that will go. Lots happening…
nothing at the moment