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>Nobody is producing anything exciting in software anymore. They're not? Some of the newer programming languages seem very interesting, attempting to fix some

>Nobody is producing anything exciting in software anymore. They're not? Some of the newer programming languages seem very interesting, attempting to fix some of the mistakes done in older languages. Of course, most of the really interesting problems are already solved by existing solutions, but perhaps there's room for improved solutions instead of just using the incumbent. >I like programming. I can still do it. What I don't like is all the bullshit around it. If you have spare time (you sound like you might be retired), perhaps you should try getting involved in an open-source project that interests you (and isn't in Python or JS of course). >I can't think of a pure software company doing anything I would be excited for, because google and facebook and the like control the internet. Personally, I work in robotics and find it quite interesting. I would also find writing software for spacecraft interesting. Neither of those are "pure software", but still I think they're applications that will change the world, hopefully for the better, and don't already have some huge incumbent dominating the market.

AtlasBarfed 2y ago
I think robotics is going to be the next the thing that I would push programmers to concentrate on Political shifts probably mean that manufacturing will be onshoring and automating. Software in the last 3 decades has basically mirrored like Conway's law management structures without source manufacturing elsewhere. The next economy will have a lot more near shored manufacturing. And that means hardware, robotics and hardware software boundaries The real world/physical materials is also a little bit more resistant to AI replacement
- fragmede 2y ago
  Robotics have been around forever, it's only by being AI driven will it gain interest and funding. No one wants to laboriously hand write gcode to actuate a motor to move an arm. People want to ask the robot maid to make coffee for them in a regular human coffee making fashion. A French press or a pour over or whatever. Traditional programming hasn't been able to achieve that in the decades it's been around, so the only way robotics is getting interesting (which it is) is the addition of AI/ML models.
  - AtlasBarfed 2y ago
    I agree cuz one thing that AI is good is breath knowledge of apis if it's properly trained. What is robotics but a whole wide range of apis to do all kinds of different things with different devices. But the point is you're going to need a human to verify that the robot is doing what the AI generated code is intended to do.

AtlasBarfed 2y ago

I think robotics is going to be the next the thing that I would push programmers to concentrate on Political shifts probably mean that manufacturing will be onshoring and automating. Software in the last 3 decades has basically mirrored like Conway's law management structures without source manufacturing elsewhere. The next economy will have a lot more near shored manufacturing. And that means hardware, robotics and hardware software boundaries The real world/physical materials is also a little bit more resistant to AI replacement

fragmede 2y ago
Robotics have been around forever, it's only by being AI driven will it gain interest and funding. No one wants to laboriously hand write gcode to actuate a motor to move an arm. People want to ask the robot maid to make coffee for them in a regular human coffee making fashion. A French press or a pour over or whatever. Traditional programming hasn't been able to achieve that in the decades it's been around, so the only way robotics is getting interesting (which it is) is the addition of AI/ML models.
- AtlasBarfed 2y ago
  I agree cuz one thing that AI is good is breath knowledge of apis if it's properly trained. What is robotics but a whole wide range of apis to do all kinds of different things with different devices. But the point is you're going to need a human to verify that the robot is doing what the AI generated code is intended to do.