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It's a new thing every year. It was blockchain. Now it's AI and machine learning. Soon there will be a different buzzword to generate clicks and investor funds.
by Causality1 7y ago
It's a new thing every year. It was blockchain. Now it's AI and machine learning. Soon there will be a different buzzword to generate clicks and investor funds.
- pjmlp 7y agoAnd when one goes through enough cycles, they learn to wait for the dust to settle or sell shovels, instead of jumping into the race.
- sammorrowdrums 7y agoWell IoT has come back a bit too with "edge processing". Buzzword trends kill me, mostly because of non-technical managers asking about using them with no real understanding of what, how and why, rather than the public buzz they generate. Blockchain is the king of that, but I do think calling ML AI was ridiculous development and I hold steadfast in my use of ML. You are right too, of course, about the investor situation. That one is really bad because nothing says "employ a technology you don't consider a good fit for your business" like $1M... I had to switch prematurely to microservices before due to investor pressure, and the company wasn't ready and you can imagine the rest.