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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Concrete goals, and reasonable steps to achieve them.

I feel like lately we've hit a weird speculative investment period in tech, where we have a bunch of tech that's created because it can be, but not because it's needed. Do LLMs, crypto currency, or NFTs have actual uses? Very possibly, but nothing concrete enough to satisfy the bubble that formed from them.

We live in an age of unreality. Give us something achievable and genuine, we get excited. It doesn't have to be complicated, just real. Hell, I'm excited as fuck over solid sodium batteries, and that's boring as shit.

[โ€“] SlopppyEngineer 14 points 2 months ago

The tech sector is right now just running in hype and jumping from one hype to the next. It's a race to keep that investors throwing money at them with providing new targets to keep investors from realizing the stuff isn't that useful.