A lot of the trends people get fixated on tend to fade away in a few months. It takes some time to get used to focusing on “boring” tech that builds better proj

A lot of the trends people get fixated on tend to fade away in a few months. It takes some time to get used to focusing on “boring” tech that builds better projects (php and Postgres come to mind as very viable solutions for development even in 2022). Clients love boring tech because you’re not sitting around explaining to them why something broke because you built it with cutting edge TrendTech. Crypto seems to have outlived its utility as a way to get rich quick. ML is still just a technique to average out giant datasets to find/generate things based on trends (these things work on training data after all and not from a true blank slate). Quantum computing is a long way off and the most practical way it’ll affect most people here is making our encryption keys too simple and some new quantum resistant version will be needed. Just watch chatGPT - in 6 months, it’ll feel like a distant memory here! And people will be raving about some new JS/wasm thing instead