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> practically all Define “practically all”. I would accept “clear majority”. But practically all? Nah. I mean the hot new areas for funding right now are AI a

> practically all Define “practically all”. I would accept “clear majority”. But practically all? Nah. I mean the hot new areas for funding right now are AI and robotics neither of which are web! I’m coming up on 20 years professional experience. Exactly none of it has been mobile or web! The programming field is so much bigger than HN likes to pretend.

adastra22 1y ago
The majority of software is probably Excel macros.
- egeozcan 1y ago
  This probably isn't true but I want to read a super geeky dark sci-fi novel that explores this topic.
  - adastra22 11mo ago
    It's not obvious to me that it isn't true. The number of excel spreadsheets world-wide probably vastly outnumbers the number of software projects.
    - egeozcan 11mo ago
      Excel spreadsheets with macros on the other hand aren't THAT many, no? :)
charcircuit 1y ago
>I mean the hot new areas for funding right now are AI and robotics Most developers are not in such startups. There is a lot of boring software out there which is a website. Even for AI, the first company that comes to mind OpenAI is known for ChatGPT, a web product. Most of the AI companies are building web products.
- johannes1234321 1y ago
  That is software with a web interface. Only a small part of OpenAI's work deals with web related things.
  - defraudbah 1y ago
    how dare you, i summon 10 js engineers from openai to downvote you (they have 6 only)
    - johannes1234321 1y ago
      I won't fear them teaming up with their FastAPI Python team. They are serious parts of chatgpt experience. But still not core of the work.