@dw_innovation Most of the internet relies on a pyramid of technologies that arent "cutting edge"
And the things that claim to be "cutting edge" are often people misunderstanding a technology & then misapplying it
Like how people seem to think blockchains, or LLMs are solutions to problems that never existed, or incorrect application creating a myriad of new problems b/c lack of fundamental understanding
The cherry on-top is the people competent enough to properly apply tech don't get funding
It's been a while since there has been a "cutting edge" worth cutting oneself on tbh, at least on a large general-public visible scale.
@ainmosni @dw_innovation absolutely, the problem is the tech industry, especially the one in California, heavily relies on not the product, but fantasies of what a technology could potentially provide
& since those projects where you rely on fantasy have higher upside, they get all the funding
This goes for everything from the robot vacuum to all the various misapplications of LLMs or blockchains (& of course, we could both likely keep listing other examples, but its not really worth doing so)
Yep, although I would say that blockchain marks the occasion where SV itself became subconsciously aware that they were out of actually useful ideas and began pushing stuff that really, absolutely, nobody really wants.
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