I fundamentally believe we can’t engineer software anymore. Like how we can’t manufacture anything anymore. So I don’t think there will be more tech growth in western nations. A good number of my high tech friends work for companies based in other nations. Open source software for my field is mostly Chinese contribution. I’m in the late stages of the interview process for an Indian company. I live in Silicon Valley.
I work in tech and I think this trend is one of the funniest things. The better / more complete your software is the less likely it is to succeed. The software that does the best is the one that is the shiniest. It doesn’t have to work. Working is actually a detriment to it because time spent making it work is less time spent making it shiny.
The shit I have seen be successful these days is obscene. Entire companies are making bank on an AI tool that gets it wrong half the time and doesn’t even know it. The people that have to deal with it just…don’t. And none of it seems to matter. It’s data moving around so much for so little reason at all that if some of the data is wrong or fake it just doesn’t matter. What I think will really pop the bubble is when suddenly it does matter; the mountain of fake or wrong data that entire industries are being built on will completely collapse. And it doesn’t have to be that way; people could actually make software and make it work but there’s no incentive to do that because the time you spent making software good is time someone else spent selling a promise that will never be.
The companies that make good products still will survive the crash if they can survive this phase. Doubly so if they can figure out how to fix the damage. Not the first time tech has gone that way and probably won’t be the last.
I fundamentally believe we can’t engineer software anymore. Like how we can’t manufacture anything anymore. So I don’t think there will be more tech growth in western nations. A good number of my high tech friends work for companies based in other nations. Open source software for my field is mostly Chinese contribution. I’m in the late stages of the interview process for an Indian company. I live in Silicon Valley.
I work in tech and I think this trend is one of the funniest things. The better / more complete your software is the less likely it is to succeed. The software that does the best is the one that is the shiniest. It doesn’t have to work. Working is actually a detriment to it because time spent making it work is less time spent making it shiny.
The shit I have seen be successful these days is obscene. Entire companies are making bank on an AI tool that gets it wrong half the time and doesn’t even know it. The people that have to deal with it just…don’t. And none of it seems to matter. It’s data moving around so much for so little reason at all that if some of the data is wrong or fake it just doesn’t matter. What I think will really pop the bubble is when suddenly it does matter; the mountain of fake or wrong data that entire industries are being built on will completely collapse. And it doesn’t have to be that way; people could actually make software and make it work but there’s no incentive to do that because the time you spent making software good is time someone else spent selling a promise that will never be.
The companies that make good products still will survive the crash if they can survive this phase. Doubly so if they can figure out how to fix the damage. Not the first time tech has gone that way and probably won’t be the last.