Based big thought here. It's curious that industry tooling is arguably plateauing around then, but it's also amazing that the database, er, SaaS is on such a long run, like from a diffusion of innovations way.
Devil's advocate: the "state of the art" tech will always be what's fastest to implementation for high-travel use cases, and that's not a totally bad thing. If you got good at machining or injection molds, would that prevent you from buying a 3d printer? No. You wouldn't stop practicing the other tools after learning the 3d printer either.
Why I pull the devil's advocate here is because I completely feel your sentiment in my bones, but I rationalize it against a stack that's later and in opposition to yours. I began 10 years ago from Objective-C and Ruby on Rails on Heroku. I was slinging early iOS apps and websites like a mofo. My shit was air tight inside and out. Then suddenly everyone wanted Swift. And Node. On AWS. For no fucking reason, they didn't even code. So I kinda took a break and flew planes.
Then a side project app of mine got some public attention and I had to suddenly become an growth eng, data eng, web dev, Chrome Extension dev, and make quick changes to my site and app to have a chance at capturing the traffic that was giving me an opportunity for success. I brought on 2 friends who just got a CS degree but didn't know what git was, and we worked 14 hours a day "squeezing the rock" trying to keep shit on the rails as we got more traffic. Saving time meant we'd allow ourselves out of the house for a moment. By the end, we had a spaghetti trail of Reacts and Reduxes, Swift, Kotlin, Firebase databases and Cloud Functions, Python Notebooks, paying a ton for simple analytics visuals... but we got the job done, and on time, which usually never happens. We've since learned how to write it more affordably to scale the Firebase backend on budget, and it's pretty easy to hire devs to service it.
Now I'll probably never rebuild that tech stack, ever. But on my most recent project where I needed to have a rich web app and mobile apps like ASAP, I StackOverflow'd a bunch of NextJS, Vercel, and React Native stuff. I'm using some CSS thing called Tailwind because it's easier to look up than plain CSS. I jammed that into some other thing called Styled Components so I can just put CSS/HTML in the same file. I'm hair-on-fire productive. I can whip up a fully featured multi-platform app in 72 hours by myself (that's free until a like 100+ users), then spend the next few months iteratively widening bottlenecks. I know this might not work for 100k+ requests/sec (although it definitely does) or legacy businesses, but the point is: if your tech is getting replaced it's because something else has a faster 0-60. Your skillset is still totally necessary for so many applications, but if you want to stick with your tools, you will stick with companies from the time that tech had the fastest iteration speed.
^ It's this. I haven't been honked at yet, but I have felt a little apologetic to people behind me. I recently updates my follow distance from 3 to 4 and its helped tremendously.
Damn, lots of strawman rage in the responses. Remember that I'm still gripping the controls and looking out the window. I don't allow the system into any kind of corner case unless I am the only one on the road. Letting the computer attempt to drive straight on the highway while a practiced and skeptical driver is ready to take over does not feel like a blatant compromise of public safety. Every incident I've encountered was very easy to handle, with lots of margin for reaction. Hopefully everyone practices this kind of regard for others while still allowing emerging technology to have a path for safe testing in the real world.
Love this. Chrome extensions are the most underrated platform to spit out 7+ figure recurring revenue businesses on. Mac App Store close second. I'm hesitant to even mention because it's such a good secret.
2022 Model Y with FSD. I use Autopilot 50+ miles a day, and use it 98% of the way on trips from San Diego to SF. It infrequently phantom brakes, and more often brakes hard and late and sometimes people think I'm brake-checking them. It also is annoying slow to recover back to cruise speed from a slow down. Also if you're in the right lane when the two right lanes merge- it is totally unreliable, I've been sandwiched between an 18-wheeler and the gutter. But that said, once you learn the quirks it is extremely predictable and robust. I have used it on snowy mountain roads in Tahoe, a sandstorm at Salton Sea, and thousands of highway miles. If you have the minimum distance set to 2 or 3 car lengths, you should not be complaining about late and hard braking- that's the setting you chose. The phantom braking is annoying but infrequent, and you can quickly override it with an accelerator tap. My suggestion to Tesla would just be to have a debug button where you can report and elevate the past 10 seconds of driving.
This is such a boss response. Good inspiration to incorporate attacker attacking into systems I build going forward.
"Heh I might've just bricked you" -> "I don't think so, but you might've bricked yourself."
Next step- have the browser send a single request per video, directly to YouTube. Actually, make it 2 or 3 just for redundancy. Then do the caption processing in-browser. Or better yet, distribute an ~electron~ app that runs this locally in the background with a separate process to autorespawn if quit.
Separately and seriously, you should triple your pricing for this.
In general, I agree. But for Bolt in particular- they have a 2500x ARR multiple, and their top customer is suing them for "utterly failing to deliver on its promises" due to incompetence in software and lying about the details of their relationship, and the general sentiment of the company and founder is that of fraud, and the direct competitor just went out of business for very similar reasons, and the TAM of the market is less than they've raised in VC- I'd say the employees and investors can do greater things with the remaining capital.
Nice. I've used this for years. I love self-descriptive code so I use a `flowerbox` and `flowerpot` bash script daily, with flowerpot being just an alias of figlet.
This is a great product. Surprised there's not a popular version of this already. Bummer all these people who apparently are too covert to use web apps are sucking the air out of your post.