There's really no need to keep up with the "bleeding edge" of technology. Most of our real advances come from papers that are 30 or 40 years old. The AI/ML/etc.

There's really no need to keep up with the "bleeding edge" of technology. Most of our real advances come from papers that are 30 or 40 years old. The AI/ML/etc. space is only apparently moving rapidly because of the "hotness" of the subject, and a lot of it is an application searching for a problem. I've been in this space since 1995, and I've learned that most of the things that pass by simply don't interest me. I don't really keep up with JS/CSS/HTML stuff any more, since it's a saturated space in a work sense. I focus on the back end exclusively, where things move in much slower, provable steps.