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I don’t disagree with the author, but I don’t worry much about old tech that is no longer useful. I have worked in the field of AI for 40 years, and we have ha

I don’t disagree with the author, but I don’t worry much about old tech that is no longer useful. I have worked in the field of AI for 40 years, and we have had a huge trash heap of technologies that ended up being useless except for lessons learned from failure. I have always been motivated to work for just two reasons: supporting myself and my family, and learning and using new tech. The great fun is in learning new things. That said, sometimes there is good short term work supporting old tech that companies still want to use.

PurpleRamen 3y ago
> huge trash heap of technologies that ended up being useless except for lessons learned from failure. The joke is, even the lessons will deprecate at some point, either when younger generations, who did not learn/understand them yet, will enter the playing field, or because the progress of technology will invalidate the lessons. Nothing is really meant to stay.