Hacker News with Generative AI: Industry Trends

Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems? (scottrlarson.com)
I am a Computer Hardware professional. I started working with computer technology in the early eighties. I have seen the evolution of technology starting with closed platforms like the game console era and then the move toward open platforms like the Home Computer Golden Age. In the last 5 or 10 years, I have witnessed technology changes that are slowly moving away from open hardware designs towards hardware that is locked down and can’t be modified by the user.

Computer Hardware, Technology, Open Source, Closed Systems, Industry Trends

209 points by trinsic2 19 days ago | 156 comments

Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good (nytimes.com)
One way to understand the video game industry’s current crisis is by looking closely at Spider-Man’s spandex.

Video Games, Industry Trends, Graphics, Spider-Man

10 points by smusamashah 22 days ago | 2 comments

2024 was the year gamers started pushing back on the erosion of game ownership (pcgamer.com)

Gaming, Consumer Rights, Industry Trends

30 points by pseudolus 24 days ago | 4 comments

The AI backlash couldn't have come at a better time (infoworld.com)
At a developers conference I attended not too long ago, attendees did little to hide their disdain every time the term “AI” was bandied about. (And it was bandied about a lot!) So I was careful on a recent call attended by about 250 engineers to preface the AI portion of the discussion with, “I know this will make you cringe, but…” That got a lot of knowing laughs and thumbs-up emojis.

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Software Development, Industry Trends

18 points by pseudolus 24 days ago | 10 comments

The Death of the Stubborn Developer (sourcegraph.com)
I wrote a blog post back in May called The Death of the Junior Developer. It made people mad. My thesis has since been corroborated by a bunch of big companies, and it is also happening in other industries, not just software. It is a real, actual problem, despite being quite inconvenient for almost everyone involved.

Software Development, Industry Trends, Labor Market

21 points by ingve 38 days ago | 26 comments

The Death of the Stubborn Developer (medium.com)
I wrote a blog post back in May called The Death of the Junior Developer. It made people mad. My thesis has since been corroborated by a bunch of big companies, and it is also happening in other industries, not just software. It is a real, actual problem, despite being quite inconvenient for almost everyone involved.

Software Development, Industry Trends, Career Development

13 points by Uhhrrr 38 days ago | 2 comments

Large Chainsaw Model (scottsmitelli.com)
As I write this article, a mélange of artificial intelligence companies provide language models to produce and consume written content: OpenAI’s GPT/ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, xAI’s Grok, Meta AI’s Llama, Google DeepMind’s Gemini, Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen, Mistral AI’s series of “’tral” models, and even IBM Watson is still kicking. The industry is booming to such an extent that the revenue from registrations under the .ai top-level domain constitutes 10% of the gross domestic product of the territory of Anguilla.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Industry Trends

36 points by smitelli 55 days ago | 22 comments

Ghost engineers – 9.5% of software engineers contribute close to nothing (twitter.com)

Software Engineering, Productivity, Industry Trends

9 points by vhiremath4 58 days ago | 8 comments

It feels like 2004 again (anildash.com)
I keep having a conversation with people around the tech world about how the industry’s current state of change — especially the potential disruption of incumbents — feels like nothing so much as a cyclical repeat of what we saw in 2004.

Technology, Industry Trends, Nostalgia

41 points by herbertl 71 days ago | 42 comments

Ask HN: How long to stay in a role to avoid being considered a "job hopper"? (ycombinator.com)
It really depends on the industry. These are opinions, but for a seat-of-the-pants dev job like a web developer, at least a year is fine, with the occasional longer stint of 3-5 years recommended so it shows that you are capable of having a little patience and can own the full product lifecycle.

Careers, Software Development, Job Searching, Industry Trends

8 points by roland35 104 days ago | 5 comments

The Continued Trajectory of Idiocy in the Tech Industry (soatok.blog)
Every hype cycle in the technology industry continues a steady march towards a shitty future that nobody wants.

Technology, Criticism, Industry Trends

94 points by gmemstr 122 days ago | 125 comments

Companies need junior devs (softwaredoug.com)
Getting coffee with a bunch of local tech leaders, I surprised myself with how stridently I argued why companies should hire junior engineers.

Software Development, Hiring, Industry Trends

130 points by softwaredoug 132 days ago | 106 comments

"SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more (rachelbythebay.com)

Software Engineering, Industry Trends

91 points by CuriousIndian 136 days ago | 80 comments

Python Developers Survey 2023 Results (jetbrains.com)

Python, Software Development, Programming Languages, Developer Survey, Industry Trends

5 points by pauloxnet 141 days ago | 0 comments

Neurotechnology numbers worth knowing (2022) (cvitkovic.net)

Neurotechnology, Statistics, Business, Industry Trends

160 points by Jun8 146 days ago | 26 comments

AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products (aisnakeoil.com)