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Are you unable to work in any tech category that’s not AI? If you want to make games and devices that make things more efficient, what’s stopping you?

• hotpotamus 3y ago
  Well, I never really took to actual software development, so game dev is out though I feel like I dodged a bullet on that anyway; it's obviously an actual job (in an industry that I've also grown wary of) and not always fun and exciting as a child might imagine. Still, there are some really cool devs out there doing cool stuff. These days I guess I'm a devops guy in medical software which is in fact aligned with what I value. Pay would embarrass most people here I think, but I like the people and am proud that we get to create a product that people value enough to pay for; we aren't trying to sell ads or otherwise extract value from people, so I am pretty happy with that. It was not always this way; I worked with a lot of startups in the early 10's (not for, but with by helping them with infrastructure before it was all AWS) and quickly became disenchanted with the tech industry. Though I wouldn't have known about the idea of ZIRP back then, it was pretty clear that most every company I worked with was chasing the money and tech-startup lifestyle/image, whatever product they happened to be pushing often seemed like an afterthought. It seems that that attitude moved onto blockchain and now AI. I suppose it's the same old grow-up, lose your innocence story that most go through, but I do feel like the 90's, when I came of age, were a time of real breakthroughs and vision for a brighter future which has slowly dimmed in the intervening decades.