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What are emerging/promising areas of tech to get into today?

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What are emerging/promising areas of tech to get into today?

#1
What fields in tech are going to be prevalent, disruptors or gain a foothold in business or consumer markets?

I have seen that people on forums like this one and stackoverflow are usually able to predict the next big things in tech quite well. Like this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324768&p=2

So, what CS areas would be good to invest time in learning for the near future?

Re: What are emerging/promising areas of tech to get into today?

#3
Honestly?

There is so much unbroken ground in tech, especially point solutions with existing web technologies that haven't been made or just started to grow. LLMs just icing in the grand scheme of things (especially in Business Process Management) along with other ML models.

I would say build apps and think about where it's appropriate to make a call to a LLM like GPT-4 or an Tensorflow JS mode, and then decide for yourself

Re: What are emerging/promising areas of tech to get into today?

#4
LLM-ops, distributed systems, high-volume data storage, better logs storage/observability across distributed systems, private personalization, AR (Vision Pro), VR (when it becomes less of a box on your face and more of just glasses).

These are just off the top of my head so take it with a grain of salt.

Re: What are emerging/promising areas of tech to get into today?

#8
post #5

ERP is waiting for a disruptor. I wish I knew how to code, or just had the balls to quit job and make a company. Since I worked for years in various companies I see that no ERP handles the usual problems.

What are the usual problems that you see?
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