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Congratulations.
You survived yet another year in the simulation.
If you still have a job in tech, it means you survived massive layoffs, didn't get drafted into a war, and outsmarted the artificial intelligence that your boss wants to replace you with.
2023 was the craziest year ever, but at the rate things are accelerating, it'll look like nothing compared to 2024.
I care deeply about a future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.
But the future ain't what it used to be.
In today's video, we'll look at 10 trends in technology that you can take advantage of in 2024.
Let's get started by looking at the health of the job market.
At the beginning of 2023, we had massive layoffs from magnificent 7 companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
Not only did flood the job market with more talent, but simultaneously, the number of open jobs declined by about 60% based on data from true up dot io.
And that's been a 1, 2 punch to the nuts for junior developers looking to get into the industry.
In 2021, we had people working multiple full time jobs simultaneously, thanks to remote work, and you could land these jobs by simply taking a 100 second boot camp.
But today, day, things look a lot different.
Managers are still desperately trying to get people back into the office, and you can find all kinds of anecdotes on Reddit about how brutal the job market is right now.
It's been a rough year, but there is some hope.
If we look closely at the chart, you'll notice that job openings are up 13.8% from earlier this year, and all the big bang companies have unfrozen their hiring freezes.
Although there aren't nearly as many open jobs as there used to be, so I'd be cautiously optimistic about an improving job market going into 2024.
But lot of that depends on the state of the world.
We're still in a high interest rate environment, which is not ideal for cash burning startups that need that easy money to hire a bunch of people to grow quickly.
Just day, Spotify did its 3rd layoff of the year, where it severed about 1500 heads, which it blamed on the higher cost of capital.
These high rates have also put the real estate market at a stand dramatically reducing the total number of transactions because nobody wants to pay $900,000 for a cardboard box with an 8% mortgage.
The automotive industry is also struggling, and we saw Tesla prices come way down in 2023, which was a shock to some people who thought their Tesla was an appreciating asset just a year ago.
The economy, and especially technology, is addicted to low rates, but we've also got some wars going on.
Now, I don't stand with Palestine, I don't stand with Israel, I don't stand Ukraine, I don't stand with Russia.
I stand with Lockheed Martin and Boeing and the military industrial complex.
These companies make the tools we need to blow each other up, and when you stand with that team, you really can't lose.
What you have to realize is that you're living paycheck to paycheck, your employer is living bailout to bailout, and the United States government is living from war to war.
If we don't get a big war soon, the entire system could collapse, and that's not going to bode well for tech jobs in the future.
But speaking of money, crypto is back.
Bitcoin with 16 k at the beginning of the year and just broke 40 k a couple days ago.
And cryptobros are already predicting that one token will be worth over a1000000 dollars by the end of 2024.
The price to watch for is 69 k.
If it reaches this price point, the world will be flooded with memes that will elevate FOMO to biblical levels.
In other words, the crypto winter might be over, bringing us a fresh new round of Ponzi schemes to invest our parents' money in.
Another failed technology that could come back in 2024 is augmented and virtual reality, thanks primarily to the Apple Vision Pro, which is set to release in early 2024.
Apple has done some revolutionary things in the past, like a mouse that charges from the bottom, and if these VR goggles take off, it could lead to a whole new round of opportunity for app developers.
However, I think that's unlikely.
Plenty of Apple cult members will drink this Kool Aid, but I don't think the general public is going to fork over $35100 to become even more disconnected from reality.
Ultimately though, I think this will end up being a niche product.
Very cool to some people, but not appealing to the average NPC.
Now speaking of where Microsoft just announced a few weeks ago that it's going to start producing its own chips, like the Maya chip for artificial intelligence and the Cobalt CPU, which is an ARM processor designed for general purpose use in the cloud.
And AWS is also building its own ARM based chips, which are cheaper and more efficient than traditional x86 chips.
Now as of today, virtually all PCs and laptops running Windows run CPUs based on the x86 architecture, But that may not be the case in the future, because thanks to Project Volterra, it's now possible to run Windows on ARM chips.
Hell, even Intel is going to manufacturing ARM chips.
The single most important thing anyone does with the CPU though is play video games.
And just yesterday, we got our first look at the GTA 6 trailer.
This will likely be the most hyped up video game in the history of the world, and it's built using Rockstar's own proprietary RAGE game engine, and that means you can't use it.
What you can use is Unity.
However, Unity made a massive blunder in 2023 by rolling out new pricing that would charge developers every time a game is downloaded.
Unity developers revolted, and it got so bad that they had to roll back the pricing and apologize.
That's right.
Apologize.
Meanwhile, Unreal Engine released version 5.3 with some crazy new features like a procedural content generation frame war and its substrate material system that gets almost indistinguishable from reality.
Now, Unreal Engine's parent company, Epic Games, sued Apple a few years ago saying it's a monopoly because it takes a 30 cut on the App Store and doesn't allow alternative payment methods, but it lost that suit, and that was held up on appeal in 2023.
Epic Games is not giving up though with more ongoing lawsuit against Google.
It seems like a long shot, but if they somehow win, it would be huge for indie developers because they could avoid that 30% cut to the big guy by using their own payment processor.
But now Let's talk about web development.
JavaScript land is as crazy as ever, but I think in 2024, people will stop building new JavaScript frameworks because nowadays they all have a similar developer experience with signal based reactivity, and the race will shift to who can build the best tools for existing frameworks.
We're seeing more visual editors and IDEs for frameworks like the act, where you can drag and drop components instead of coding them manually.
Then you have frameworks like Nuxt, which have built in dev tools to make life easier, but pretty soon, we should have AI writing most of our code.
There are tools like Visual Copilot, where you can take a design in Figma, and it will automatically write the framework code along with tailwind styles.
In the near future, I think every JavaScript framework will have its own specialized tooling along with its own specially tuned AI for writing useful accurate code.
Whichever framework does this the best will will win the web development war for the next 10 years.
And I think there will be a lot of opportunity on the web, in part because of trends in mobile development.
This trend been ongoing for many years, but people just don't wanna download mobile apps anymore.
It's not like 10 years ago when you could develop an app in your mom's basement, have it go and become a millionaire overnight.
There are billions of people using smartphones every day, but getting their attention away from established apps is harder than ever.
Like, as you can here, most of my screen time goes to Twitter and Discord.
When it comes to building mobile apps, not too much has changed.
But if you're building cross platform, we're starting to see more low code tools that can build for both iOS and Android with a drag and drop interface.
But now let's talk about low level systems languages.
Rust is still growing incredibly fast, and you can now find Rust code in the Linux kernel.
There was some armor with the Rust Foundation earlier this year, and I might get sued for using this logo.
But there are some other up and coming low level languages as well, like Zig, the language behind the script BUN runtime and also Mojo, a Python superset that can also handle low level memory management, making it both approachable and extremely performant, an ideal option for AI and machine learning.
And finally, that brings us to number 10, the elephant in the room, artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT has only been around for a year, although it feels like a lot longer.
And most normies out there haven't even touched it yet, but that's going to change over the next few years because we now have Bard built into Google to cannibalize its search engine.
We have Copilot built into Microsoft Office to write all your papers and do all your spreadsheets.
An estimated 75% of all stock radio now happens via algorithms, and AI is being weaponized to both launch and defend against cyberattacks.
And even our military industrial complex friends like Palantir are using AI to help blow people up in a more environmentally friendly and equitable way.
But things got really crazy with generative image AI.
10 years ago, Ian Goodfellow published a paper proposing the first generative adversarial network.
7 years later, OpenAI brought us to fusion models with DALL E, but they still sucked pretty hard.
But then just 2 years from that point, we get images good enough to make 10 $1,000 a month on OnlyFans.
In 2024, a big trend to watch is text to video.
Stable Diffusion just released a text to video model, and at the current rate of progress, I predict that by the end of 2024, you'll be able to generate a full length Bollywood quality movie from your laptop.
But none of this will matter if somebody first achieves artificial general intelligence, an AI that can actually think for itself and not just regurgitate and remix things humans have already gun.
Some people even think this has already been achieved by open AI with the leak of QStar.
However, there's a French guy that thinks AGI is decades away, and some think it will never be achieved.
When that day comes, it could be a great day for humanity.
We'll never have to work or think again, and there'll be nothing left to do but indulge in pleasure.
On the other hand though, you may live to see AI made horrors beyond your comprehension.
It could end up being like when Faust made a deal with the devil for unlimited knowledge and pleasure.
But once that knowledge is achieved, there's a trade off in the form of moral and spiritual decline.
The AI will have to adjust for this by creating billions of lab grown babies, which are now a real thing, then put them into a simulation that has a disproportionate amount of suffering in order to offset the pleasures experienced by the AI.
In fact, you might be in the simulation right now.
Why else would you be watching a video gaslighting you into thinking you're in a simulation?
You'd have to be crazy to think we're not in a simulation right now.
But again congratulations for making it to round 2024.
Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.

Speaker 0: Congratulations. You survived yet another year in the simulation. If you still have a job in tech, it means you survived massive layoffs, didn't get drafted into a war, and outsmarted the artificial intelligence that your boss wants to replace you with. 2023 was the craziest year ever, but at the rate things are accelerating, it'll look like nothing compared to 2024. I care deeply about a future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

But the future ain't what it used to be. In today's video, we'll look at 10 trends in technology that you can take advantage of in 2024. Let's get started by looking at the health of the job market. At the beginning of 2023, we had massive layoffs from magnificent 7 companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Not only did flood the job market with more talent, but simultaneously, the number of open jobs declined by about 60% based on data from true up dot io.

And that's been a 1, 2 punch to the nuts for junior developers looking to get into the industry. In 2021, we had people working multiple full time jobs simultaneously, thanks to remote work, and you could land these jobs by simply taking a 100 second boot camp. But today, day, things look a lot different. Managers are still desperately trying to get people back into the office, and you can find all kinds of anecdotes on Reddit about how brutal the job market is right now. It's been a rough year, but there is some hope.

If we look closely at the chart, you'll notice that job openings are up 13.8% from earlier this year, and all the big bang companies have unfrozen their hiring freezes. Although there aren't nearly as many open jobs as there used to be, so I'd be cautiously optimistic about an improving job market going into 2024. But lot of that depends on the state of the world. We're still in a high interest rate environment, which is not ideal for cash burning startups that need that easy money to hire a bunch of people to grow quickly. Just day, Spotify did its 3rd layoff of the year, where it severed about 1500 heads, which it blamed on the higher cost of capital.

These high rates have also put the real estate market at a stand dramatically reducing the total number of transactions because nobody wants to pay $900,000 for a cardboard box with an 8% mortgage. The automotive industry is also struggling, and we saw Tesla prices come way down in 2023, which was a shock to some people who thought their Tesla was an appreciating asset just a year ago. The economy, and especially technology, is addicted to low rates, but we've also got some wars going on. Now, I don't stand with Palestine, I don't stand with Israel, I don't stand Ukraine, I don't stand with Russia. I stand with Lockheed Martin and Boeing and the military industrial complex.

These companies make the tools we need to blow each other up, and when you stand with that team, you really can't lose. What you have to realize is that you're living paycheck to paycheck, your employer is living bailout to bailout, and the United States government is living from war to war. If we don't get a big war soon, the entire system could collapse, and that's not going to bode well for tech jobs in the future. But speaking of money, crypto is back. Bitcoin with 16 k at the beginning of the year and just broke 40 k a couple days ago.

And cryptobros are already predicting that one token will be worth over a1000000 dollars by the end of 2024. The price to watch for is 69 k. If it reaches this price point, the world will be flooded with memes that will elevate FOMO to biblical levels. In other words, the crypto winter might be over, bringing us a fresh new round of Ponzi schemes to invest our parents' money in. Another failed technology that could come back in 2024 is augmented and virtual reality, thanks primarily to the Apple Vision Pro, which is set to release in early 2024.

Apple has done some revolutionary things in the past, like a mouse that charges from the bottom, and if these VR goggles take off, it could lead to a whole new round of opportunity for app developers. However, I think that's unlikely. Plenty of Apple cult members will drink this Kool Aid, but I don't think the general public is going to fork over $35100 to become even more disconnected from reality. Ultimately though, I think this will end up being a niche product. Very cool to some people, but not appealing to the average NPC.

Now speaking of where Microsoft just announced a few weeks ago that it's going to start producing its own chips, like the Maya chip for artificial intelligence and the Cobalt CPU, which is an ARM processor designed for general purpose use in the cloud. And AWS is also building its own ARM based chips, which are cheaper and more efficient than traditional x86 chips. Now as of today, virtually all PCs and laptops running Windows run CPUs based on the x86 architecture, But that may not be the case in the future, because thanks to Project Volterra, it's now possible to run Windows on ARM chips. Hell, even Intel is going to manufacturing ARM chips. The single most important thing anyone does with the CPU though is play video games.

And just yesterday, we got our first look at the GTA 6 trailer. This will likely be the most hyped up video game in the history of the world, and it's built using Rockstar's own proprietary RAGE game engine, and that means you can't use it. What you can use is Unity. However, Unity made a massive blunder in 2023 by rolling out new pricing that would charge developers every time a game is downloaded. Unity developers revolted, and it got so bad that they had to roll back the pricing and apologize.

That's right. Apologize. Meanwhile, Unreal Engine released version 5.3 with some crazy new features like a procedural content generation frame war and its substrate material system that gets almost indistinguishable from reality. Now, Unreal Engine's parent company, Epic Games, sued Apple a few years ago saying it's a monopoly because it takes a 30 cut on the App Store and doesn't allow alternative payment methods, but it lost that suit, and that was held up on appeal in 2023. Epic Games is not giving up though with more ongoing lawsuit against Google.

It seems like a long shot, but if they somehow win, it would be huge for indie developers because they could avoid that 30% cut to the big guy by using their own payment processor. But now Let's talk about web development. JavaScript land is as crazy as ever, but I think in 2024, people will stop building new JavaScript frameworks because nowadays they all have a similar developer experience with signal based reactivity, and the race will shift to who can build the best tools for existing frameworks. We're seeing more visual editors and IDEs for frameworks like the act, where you can drag and drop components instead of coding them manually. Then you have frameworks like Nuxt, which have built in dev tools to make life easier, but pretty soon, we should have AI writing most of our code.

There are tools like Visual Copilot, where you can take a design in Figma, and it will automatically write the framework code along with tailwind styles. In the near future, I think every JavaScript framework will have its own specialized tooling along with its own specially tuned AI for writing useful accurate code. Whichever framework does this the best will will win the web development war for the next 10 years. And I think there will be a lot of opportunity on the web, in part because of trends in mobile development. This trend been ongoing for many years, but people just don't wanna download mobile apps anymore.

It's not like 10 years ago when you could develop an app in your mom's basement, have it go and become a millionaire overnight. There are billions of people using smartphones every day, but getting their attention away from established apps is harder than ever. Like, as you can here, most of my screen time goes to Twitter and Discord. When it comes to building mobile apps, not too much has changed. But if you're building cross platform, we're starting to see more low code tools that can build for both iOS and Android with a drag and drop interface.

But now let's talk about low level systems languages. Rust is still growing incredibly fast, and you can now find Rust code in the Linux kernel. There was some armor with the Rust Foundation earlier this year, and I might get sued for using this logo. But there are some other up and coming low level languages as well, like Zig, the language behind the script BUN runtime and also Mojo, a Python superset that can also handle low level memory management, making it both approachable and extremely performant, an ideal option for AI and machine learning. And finally, that brings us to number 10, the elephant in the room, artificial intelligence.

ChatGPT has only been around for a year, although it feels like a lot longer. And most normies out there haven't even touched it yet, but that's going to change over the next few years because we now have Bard built into Google to cannibalize its search engine. We have Copilot built into Microsoft Office to write all your papers and do all your spreadsheets. An estimated 75% of all stock radio now happens via algorithms, and AI is being weaponized to both launch and defend against cyberattacks. And even our military industrial complex friends like Palantir are using AI to help blow people up in a more environmentally friendly and equitable way.

But things got really crazy with generative image AI. 10 years ago, Ian Goodfellow published a paper proposing the first generative adversarial network. 7 years later, OpenAI brought us to fusion models with DALL E, but they still sucked pretty hard. But then just 2 years from that point, we get images good enough to make 10 $1,000 a month on OnlyFans. In 2024, a big trend to watch is text to video.

Stable Diffusion just released a text to video model, and at the current rate of progress, I predict that by the end of 2024, you'll be able to generate a full length Bollywood quality movie from your laptop. But none of this will matter if somebody first achieves artificial general intelligence, an AI that can actually think for itself and not just regurgitate and remix things humans have already gun. Some people even think this has already been achieved by open AI with the leak of QStar. However, there's a French guy that thinks AGI is decades away, and some think it will never be achieved. When that day comes, it could be a great day for humanity.

We'll never have to work or think again, and there'll be nothing left to do but indulge in pleasure. On the other hand though, you may live to see AI made horrors beyond your comprehension. It could end up being like when Faust made a deal with the devil for unlimited knowledge and pleasure. But once that knowledge is achieved, there's a trade off in the form of moral and spiritual decline. The AI will have to adjust for this by creating billions of lab grown babies, which are now a real thing, then put them into a simulation that has a disproportionate amount of suffering in order to offset the pleasures experienced by the AI.

In fact, you might be in the simulation right now. Why else would you be watching a video gaslighting you into thinking you're in a simulation? You'd have to be crazy to think we're not in a simulation right now. But again congratulations for making it to round 2024. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
Congratulations. You survived yet another year in the simulation. If you still have a job in tech, it means you survived massive layoffs, didn't get drafted into a war, and outsmarted the artificial intelligence that your boss wants to replace you with.
2023 was the craziest year ever, but at the rate things are accelerating, it'll look like nothing compared to 2024. I care deeply about a future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there. But the future ain't what it used to be. In today's video, we'll look at 10 trends in technology that you can take advantage of in 2024. Let's get started by looking at the health of the job market. At the beginning of 2023, we had massive layoffs from magnificent 7 companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Not only did flood the job market with more talent, but simultaneously, the number of open jobs declined by about 60% based on data from true up dot io.
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And that's been a 1, 2 punch to the nuts for junior developers looking to get into the industry. In 2021, we had people working multiple full time jobs simultaneously, thanks to remote work, and you could land these jobs by simply taking a 100 second boot camp. But today, day, things look a lot different. Managers are still desperately trying to get people back into the office, and you can find all kinds of anecdotes on Reddit about how brutal the job market is right now. It's been a rough year, but there is some hope. If we look closely at the chart, you'll notice that job openings are up 13.8% from earlier this year, and all the big bang companies have unfrozen their hiring freezes.
Although there aren't nearly as many open jobs as there used to be, so I'd be cautiously optimistic about an improving job market going into 2024. But lot of that depends on the state of the world. We're still in a high interest rate environment, which is not ideal for cash burning startups that need that easy money to hire a bunch of people to grow quickly.
economy
Just day, Spotify did its 3rd layoff of the year, where it severed about 1500 heads, which it blamed on the higher cost of capital. These high rates have also put the real estate market at a stand dramatically reducing the total number of transactions because nobody wants to pay $900,000 for a cardboard box with an 8% mortgage. The automotive industry is also struggling, and we saw Tesla prices come way down in 2023, which was a shock to some people who thought their Tesla was an appreciating asset just a year ago.
real estate
mortgages
The economy, and especially technology, is addicted to low rates, but we've also got some wars going on. Now, I don't stand with Palestine, I don't stand with Israel, I don't stand Ukraine, I don't stand with Russia.
I stand with Lockheed Martin and Boeing and the military industrial complex. These companies make the tools we need to blow each other up, and when you stand with that team, you really can't lose. What you have to realize is that you're living paycheck to paycheck, your employer is living bailout to bailout, and the United States government is living from war to war.
military
If we don't get a big war soon, the entire system could collapse, and that's not going to bode well for tech jobs in the future. But speaking of money, crypto is back. Bitcoin with 16 k at the beginning of the year and just broke 40 k a couple days ago. And cryptobros are already predicting that one token will be worth over a1000000 dollars by the end of 2024. The price to watch for is 69 k. If it reaches this price point, the world will be flooded with memes that will elevate FOMO to biblical levels. In other words, the crypto winter might be over, bringing us a fresh new round of Ponzi schemes to invest our parents' money in. Another failed technology that could come back in 2024 is augmented and virtual reality, thanks primarily to the Apple Vision Pro, which is set to release in early 2024. Apple has done some revolutionary things in the past, like a mouse that charges from the bottom, and if these VR goggles take off, it could lead to a whole new round of opportunity for app developers. However, I think that's unlikely. Plenty of Apple cult members will drink this Kool Aid, but I don't think the general public is going to fork over $35100 to become even more disconnected from reality. Ultimately though, I think this will end up being a niche product. Very cool to some people, but not appealing to the average NPC. Now speaking of where Microsoft just announced a few weeks ago that it's going to start producing its own chips, like the Maya chip for artificial intelligence and the Cobalt CPU, which is an ARM processor designed for general purpose use in the cloud. And AWS is also building its own ARM based chips, which are cheaper and more efficient than traditional x86 chips. Now as of today, virtually all PCs and laptops running Windows run CPUs based on the x86 architecture, But that may not be the case in the future, because thanks to Project Volterra, it's now possible to run Windows on ARM chips. Hell, even Intel is going to manufacturing ARM chips. The single most important thing anyone does with the CPU though is play video games. And just yesterday, we got our first look at the GTA 6 trailer. This will likely be the most hyped up video game in the history of the world, and it's built using Rockstar's own proprietary RAGE game engine, and that means you can't use it. What you can use is Unity. However, Unity made a massive blunder in 2023 by rolling out new pricing that would charge developers every time a game is downloaded.
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Unity developers revolted, and it got so bad that they had to roll back the pricing and apologize. That's right. Apologize. Meanwhile, Unreal Engine released version 5.3 with some crazy new features like a procedural content generation frame war and its substrate material system that gets almost indistinguishable from reality.
Now, Unreal Engine's parent company, Epic Games, sued Apple a few years ago saying it's a monopoly because it takes a 30 cut on the App Store and doesn't allow alternative payment methods, but it lost that suit, and that was held up on appeal in 2023. Epic Games is not giving up though with more ongoing lawsuit against Google. It seems like a long shot, but if they somehow win, it would be huge for indie developers because they could avoid that 30% cut to the big guy by using their own payment processor. But now Let's talk about web development.
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games
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JavaScript land is as crazy as ever, but I think in 2024, people will stop building new JavaScript frameworks because nowadays they all have a similar developer experience with signal based reactivity, and the race will shift to who can build the best tools for existing frameworks.
We're seeing more visual editors and IDEs for frameworks like the act, where you can drag and drop components instead of coding them manually. Then you have frameworks like Nuxt, which have built in dev tools to make life easier, but pretty soon, we should have AI writing most of our code. There are tools like Visual Copilot, where you can take a design in Figma, and it will automatically write the framework code along with tailwind styles. In the near future, I think every JavaScript framework will have its own specialized tooling along with its own specially tuned AI for writing useful accurate code. Whichever framework does this the best will will win the web development war for the next 10 years. And I think there will be a lot of opportunity on the web, in part because of trends in mobile development. This trend been ongoing for many years, but people just don't wanna download mobile apps anymore. It's not like 10 years ago when you could develop an app in your mom's basement, have it go and become a millionaire overnight. There are billions of people using smartphones every day, but getting their attention away from established apps is harder than ever. Like, as you can here, most of my screen time goes to Twitter and Discord. When it comes to building mobile apps, not too much has changed. But if you're building cross platform, we're starting to see more low code tools that can build for both iOS and Android with a drag and drop interface.
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But now let's talk about low level systems languages. Rust is still growing incredibly fast, and you can now find Rust code in the Linux kernel. There was some armor with the Rust Foundation earlier this year, and I might get sued for using this logo. But there are some other up and coming low level languages as well, like Zig, the language behind the script BUN runtime and also Mojo, a Python superset that can also handle low level memory management, making it both approachable and extremely performant, an ideal option for AI and machine learning.
And finally, that brings us to number 10, the elephant in the room, artificial intelligence. ChatGPT has only been around for a year, although it feels like a lot longer. And most normies out there haven't even touched it yet, but that's going to change over the next few years because we now have Bard built into Google to cannibalize its search engine. We have Copilot built into Microsoft Office to write all your papers and do all your spreadsheets. An estimated 75% of all stock radio now happens via algorithms, and AI is being weaponized to both launch and defend against cyberattacks. And even our military industrial complex friends like Palantir are using AI to help blow people up in a more environmentally friendly and equitable way. But things got really crazy with generative image AI. 10 years ago, Ian Goodfellow published a paper proposing the first generative adversarial network. 7 years later, OpenAI brought us to fusion models with DALL E, but they still sucked pretty hard. But then just 2 years from that point, we get images good enough to make 10 $1,000 a month on OnlyFans. In 2024, a big trend to watch is text to video. Stable Diffusion just released a text to video model, and at the current rate of progress, I predict that by the end of 2024, you'll be able to generate a full length Bollywood quality movie from your laptop. But none of this will matter if somebody first achieves artificial general intelligence, an AI that can actually think for itself and not just regurgitate and remix things humans have already gun. Some people even think this has already been achieved by open AI with the leak of QStar. However, there's a French guy that thinks AGI is decades away, and some think it will never be achieved.
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When that day comes, it could be a great day for humanity. We'll never have to work or think again, and there'll be nothing left to do but indulge in pleasure. On the other hand though, you may live to see AI made horrors beyond your comprehension. It could end up being like when Faust made a deal with the devil for unlimited knowledge and pleasure.
But once that knowledge is achieved, there's a trade off in the form of moral and spiritual decline. The AI will have to adjust for this by creating billions of lab grown babies, which are now a real thing, then put them into a simulation that has a disproportionate amount of suffering in order to offset the pleasures experienced by the AI.
artificial intelligence
In fact, you might be in the simulation right now. Why else would you be watching a video gaslighting you into thinking you're in a simulation? You'd have to be crazy to think we're not in a simulation right now. But again congratulations for making it to round 2024. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
Congratulations. You survived yet another year in the simulation. If you still have a job in tech, it means you survived massive layoffs, didn't get drafted into a war, and outsmarted the artificial intelligence that your boss wants to replace you with. 2023 was the craziest year ever, but at the rate things are accelerating, it'll look like nothing compared to 2024. I care deeply about a future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there. But the future ain't what it used to be. In today's video, we'll look at 10 trends in technology that you can take advantage of in 2024. Let's get started by looking at the health of the job market. At the beginning of 2023, we had massive layoffs from magnificent 7 companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Not only did flood the job market with more talent, but simultaneously, the number of open jobs declined by about 60% based on data from true up dot io. And that's been a 1, 2 punch to the nuts for junior developers looking to get into the industry. In 2021, we had people working multiple full time jobs simultaneously, thanks to remote work, and you could land these jobs by simply taking a 100 second boot camp. But today, day, things look a lot different. Managers are still desperately trying to get people back into the office, and you can find all kinds of anecdotes on Reddit about how brutal the job market is right now. It's been a rough year, but there is some hope. If we look closely at the chart, you'll notice that job openings are up 13.8% from earlier this year, and all the big bang companies have unfrozen their hiring freezes. Although there aren't nearly as many open jobs as there used to be, so I'd be cautiously optimistic about an improving job market going into 2024. But lot of that depends on the state of the world. We're still in a high interest rate environment, which is not ideal for cash burning startups that need that easy money to hire a bunch of people to grow quickly. Just day, Spotify did its 3rd layoff of the year, where it severed about 1500 heads, which it blamed on the higher cost of capital. These high rates have also put the real estate market at a stand dramatically reducing the total number of transactions because nobody wants to pay $900,000 for a cardboard box with an 8% mortgage. The automotive industry is also struggling, and we saw Tesla prices come way down in 2023, which was a shock to some people who thought their Tesla was an appreciating asset just a year ago. The economy, and especially technology, is addicted to low rates, but we've also got some wars going on. Now, I don't stand with Palestine, I don't stand with Israel, I don't stand Ukraine, I don't stand with Russia. I stand with Lockheed Martin and Boeing and the military industrial complex. These companies make the tools we need to blow each other up, and when you stand with that team, you really can't lose. What you have to realize is that you're living paycheck to paycheck, your employer is living bailout to bailout, and the United States government is living from war to war. If we don't get a big war soon, the entire system could collapse, and that's not going to bode well for tech jobs in the future. But speaking of money, crypto is back. Bitcoin with 16 k at the beginning of the year and just broke 40 k a couple days ago. And cryptobros are already predicting that one token will be worth over a1000000 dollars by the end of 2024. The price to watch for is 69 k. If it reaches this price point, the world will be flooded with memes that will elevate FOMO to biblical levels. In other words, the crypto winter might be over, bringing us a fresh new round of Ponzi schemes to invest our parents' money in. Another failed technology that could come back in 2024 is augmented and virtual reality, thanks primarily to the Apple Vision Pro, which is set to release in early 2024. Apple has done some revolutionary things in the past, like a mouse that charges from the bottom, and if these VR goggles take off, it could lead to a whole new round of opportunity for app developers. However, I think that's unlikely. Plenty of Apple cult members will drink this Kool Aid, but I don't think the general public is going to fork over $35100 to become even more disconnected from reality. Ultimately though, I think this will end up being a niche product. Very cool to some people, but not appealing to the average NPC. Now speaking of where Microsoft just announced a few weeks ago that it's going to start producing its own chips, like the Maya chip for artificial intelligence and the Cobalt CPU, which is an ARM processor designed for general purpose use in the cloud. And AWS is also building its own ARM based chips, which are cheaper and more efficient than traditional x86 chips. Now as of today, virtually all PCs and laptops running Windows run CPUs based on the x86 architecture, But that may not be the case in the future, because thanks to Project Volterra, it's now possible to run Windows on ARM chips. Hell, even Intel is going to manufacturing ARM chips. The single most important thing anyone does with the CPU though is play video games. And just yesterday, we got our first look at the GTA 6 trailer. This will likely be the most hyped up video game in the history of the world, and it's built using Rockstar's own proprietary RAGE game engine, and that means you can't use it. What you can use is Unity. However, Unity made a massive blunder in 2023 by rolling out new pricing that would charge developers every time a game is downloaded. Unity developers revolted, and it got so bad that they had to roll back the pricing and apologize. That's right. Apologize. Meanwhile, Unreal Engine released version 5.3 with some crazy new features like a procedural content generation frame war and its substrate material system that gets almost indistinguishable from reality. Now, Unreal Engine's parent company, Epic Games, sued Apple a few years ago saying it's a monopoly because it takes a 30 cut on the App Store and doesn't allow alternative payment methods, but it lost that suit, and that was held up on appeal in 2023. Epic Games is not giving up though with more ongoing lawsuit against Google. It seems like a long shot, but if they somehow win, it would be huge for indie developers because they could avoid that 30% cut to the big guy by using their own payment processor. But now Let's talk about web development. JavaScript land is as crazy as ever, but I think in 2024, people will stop building new JavaScript frameworks because nowadays they all have a similar developer experience with signal based reactivity, and the race will shift to who can build the best tools for existing frameworks. We're seeing more visual editors and IDEs for frameworks like the act, where you can drag and drop components instead of coding them manually. Then you have frameworks like Nuxt, which have built in dev tools to make life easier, but pretty soon, we should have AI writing most of our code. There are tools like Visual Copilot, where you can take a design in Figma, and it will automatically write the framework code along with tailwind styles. In the near future, I think every JavaScript framework will have its own specialized tooling along with its own specially tuned AI for writing useful accurate code. Whichever framework does this the best will will win the web development war for the next 10 years. And I think there will be a lot of opportunity on the web, in part because of trends in mobile development. This trend been ongoing for many years, but people just don't wanna download mobile apps anymore. It's not like 10 years ago when you could develop an app in your mom's basement, have it go and become a millionaire overnight. There are billions of people using smartphones every day, but getting their attention away from established apps is harder than ever. Like, as you can here, most of my screen time goes to Twitter and Discord. When it comes to building mobile apps, not too much has changed. But if you're building cross platform, we're starting to see more low code tools that can build for both iOS and Android with a drag and drop interface. But now let's talk about low level systems languages. Rust is still growing incredibly fast, and you can now find Rust code in the Linux kernel. There was some armor with the Rust Foundation earlier this year, and I might get sued for using this logo. But there are some other up and coming low level languages as well, like Zig, the language behind the script BUN runtime and also Mojo, a Python superset that can also handle low level memory management, making it both approachable and extremely performant, an ideal option for AI and machine learning. And finally, that brings us to number 10, the elephant in the room, artificial intelligence. ChatGPT has only been around for a year, although it feels like a lot longer. And most normies out there haven't even touched it yet, but that's going to change over the next few years because we now have Bard built into Google to cannibalize its search engine. We have Copilot built into Microsoft Office to write all your papers and do all your spreadsheets. An estimated 75% of all stock radio now happens via algorithms, and AI is being weaponized to both launch and defend against cyberattacks. And even our military industrial complex friends like Palantir are using AI to help blow people up in a more environmentally friendly and equitable way. But things got really crazy with generative image AI. 10 years ago, Ian Goodfellow published a paper proposing the first generative adversarial network. 7 years later, OpenAI brought us to fusion models with DALL E, but they still sucked pretty hard. But then just 2 years from that point, we get images good enough to make 10 $1,000 a month on OnlyFans. In 2024, a big trend to watch is text to video. Stable Diffusion just released a text to video model, and at the current rate of progress, I predict that by the end of 2024, you'll be able to generate a full length Bollywood quality movie from your laptop. But none of this will matter if somebody first achieves artificial general intelligence, an AI that can actually think for itself and not just regurgitate and remix things humans have already gun. Some people even think this has already been achieved by open AI with the leak of QStar. However, there's a French guy that thinks AGI is decades away, and some think it will never be achieved. When that day comes, it could be a great day for humanity. We'll never have to work or think again, and there'll be nothing left to do but indulge in pleasure. On the other hand though, you may live to see AI made horrors beyond your comprehension. It could end up being like when Faust made a deal with the devil for unlimited knowledge and pleasure. But once that knowledge is achieved, there's a trade off in the form of moral and spiritual decline. The AI will have to adjust for this by creating billions of lab grown babies, which are now a real thing, then put them into a simulation that has a disproportionate amount of suffering in order to offset the pleasures experienced by the AI. In fact, you might be in the simulation right now. Why else would you be watching a video gaslighting you into thinking you're in a simulation? You'd have to be crazy to think we're not in a simulation right now. But again congratulations for making it to round 2024. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
Congratulations.
congratulations
You
you
survived
survived
yet
yet
another
another
year
year
in
in
the
the
simulation.
simulation
If
if
you
you
still
still
have
have
a
a
job
job
in
in
tech,
tech
it
it
means
means
you
you
survived
survived
massive
massive
layoffs,
layoffs
didn't
didn't
get
get
drafted
drafted
into
into
a
a
war,
war
and
and
outsmarted
outsmarted
the
the
artificial
artificial
intelligence
intelligence
that
that
your
your
boss
boss
wants
wants
to
to
replace
replace
you
you
with.
with
2023
2023
was
was
the
the
craziest
craziest
year
year
ever,
ever
but
but
at
at
the
the
rate
rate
things
things
are
are
accelerating,
accelerating
it'll
it'll
look
look
like
like
nothing
nothing
compared
compared
to
to
2024.
2024
I
i
care
care
deeply
deeply
about
about
a
a
future
future
because
because
I'm
i'm
going
going
to
to
spend
spend
the
the
rest
rest
of
of
my
my
life
life
there.
there
But
but
the
the
future
future
ain't
ain't
what
what
it
it
used
used
to
to
be.
be
In
in
today's
today's
video,
video
we'll
we'll
look
look
at
at
10
10
trends
trends
in
in
technology
technology
that
that
you
you
can
can
take
take
advantage
advantage
of
of
in
in
2024.
2024
Let's
let's
get
get
started
started
by
by
looking
looking
at
at
the
the
health
health
of
of
the
the
job
job
market.
market
At
at
the
the
beginning
beginning
of
of
2023,
2023
we
we
had
had
massive
massive
layoffs
layoffs
from
from
magnificent
magnificent
7
7
companies
companies
like
like
Amazon,
amazon
Google,
google
and
and
Microsoft.
microsoft
Not
not
only
only
did
did
flood
flood
the
the
job
job
market
market
with
with
more
more
talent,
talent
but
but
simultaneously,
simultaneously
the
the
number
number
of
of
open
open
jobs
jobs
declined
declined
by
by
about
about
60%
60%
based
based
on
on
data
data
from
from
true
true
up
up
dot
dot
io.
io
And
and
that's
that's
been
been
a
a
1,
1
2
2
punch
punch
to
to
the
the
nuts
nuts
for
for
junior
junior
developers
developers
looking
looking
to
to
get
get
into
into
the
the
industry.
industry
In
in
2021,
2021
we
we
had
had
people
people
working
working
multiple
multiple
full
full
time
time
jobs
jobs
simultaneously,
simultaneously
thanks
thanks
to
to
remote
remote
work,
work
and
and
you
you
could
could
land
land
these
these
jobs
jobs
by
by
simply
simply
taking
taking
a
a
100
100
second
second
boot
boot
camp.
camp
But
but
today,
today
day,
day
things
things
look
look
a
a
lot
lot
different.
different
Managers
managers
are
are
still
still
desperately
desperately
trying
trying
to
to
get
get
people
people
back
back
into
into
the
the
office,
office
and
and
you
you
can
can
find
find
all
all
kinds
kinds
of
of
anecdotes
anecdotes
on
on
Reddit
reddit
about
about
how
how
brutal
brutal
the
the
job
job
market
market
is
is
right
right
now.
now
It's
it's
been
been
a
a
rough
rough
year,
year
but
but
there
there
is
is
some
some
hope.
hope
If
if
we
we
look
look
closely
closely
at
at
the
the
chart,
chart
you'll
you'll
notice
notice
that
that
job
job
openings
openings
are
are
up
up
13.8%
13.8%
from
from
earlier
earlier
this
this
year,
year
and
and
all
all
the
the
big
big
bang
bang
companies
companies
have
have
unfrozen
unfrozen
their
their
hiring
hiring
freezes.
freezes
Although
although
there
there
aren't
aren't
nearly
nearly
as
as
many
many
open
open
jobs
jobs
as
as
there
there
used
used
to
to
be,
be
so
so
I'd
i'd
be
be
cautiously
cautiously
optimistic
optimistic
about
about
an
an
improving
improving
job
job
market
market
going
going
into
into
2024.
2024
But
but
lot
lot
of
of
that
that
depends
depends
on
on
the
the
state
state
of
of
the
the
world.
world
We're
we're
still
still
in
in
a
a
high
high
interest
interest
rate
rate
environment,
environment
which
which
is
is
not
not
ideal
ideal
for
for
cash
cash
burning
burning
startups
startups
that
that
need
need
that
that
easy
easy
money
money
to
to
hire
hire
a
a
bunch
bunch
of
of
people
people
to
to
grow
grow
quickly.
quickly
Just
just
day,
day
Spotify
spotify
did
did
its
its
3rd
3rd
layoff
layoff
of
of
the
the
year,
year
where
where
it
it
severed
severed
about
about
1500
1500
heads,
heads
which
which
it
it
blamed
blamed
on
on
the
the
higher
higher
cost
cost
of
of
capital.
capital
These
these
high
high
rates
rates
have
have
also
also
put
put
the
the
real
real
estate
estate
market
market
at
at
a
a
stand
stand
dramatically
dramatically
reducing
reducing
the
the
total
total
number
number
of
of
transactions
transactions
because
because
nobody
nobody
wants
wants
to
to
pay
pay
$900,000
$900,000
for
for
a
a
cardboard
cardboard
box
box
with
with
an
an
8%
8%
mortgage.
mortgage
The
the
automotive
automotive
industry
industry
is
is
also
also
struggling,
struggling
and
and
we
we
saw
saw
Tesla
tesla
prices
prices
come
come
way
way
down
down
in
in
2023,
2023
which
which
was
was
a
a
shock
shock
to
to
some
some
people
people
who
who
thought
thought
their
their
Tesla
tesla
was
was
an
an
appreciating
appreciating
asset
asset
just
just
a
a
year
year
ago.
ago
The
the
economy,
economy
and
and
especially
especially
technology,
technology
is
is
addicted
addicted
to
to
low
low
rates,
rates
but
but
we've
we've
also
also
got
got
some
some
wars
wars
going
going
on.
on
Now,
now
I
i
don't
don't
stand
stand
with
with
Palestine,
palestine
I
i
don't
don't
stand
stand
with
with
Israel,
israel
I
i
don't
don't
stand
stand
Ukraine,
ukraine
I
i
don't
don't
stand
stand
with
with
Russia.
russia
I
i
stand
stand
with
with
Lockheed
lockheed
Martin
martin
and
and
Boeing
boeing
and
and
the
the
military
military
industrial
industrial
complex.
complex
These
these
companies
companies
make
make
the
the
tools
tools
we
we
need
need
to
to
blow
blow
each
each
other
other
up,
up
and
and
when
when
you
you
stand
stand
with
with
that
that
team,
team
you
you
really
really
can't
can't
lose.
lose
What
what
you
you
have
have
to
to
realize
realize
is
is
that
that
you're
you're
living
living
paycheck
paycheck
to
to
paycheck,
paycheck
your
your
employer
employer
is
is
living
living
bailout
bailout
to
to
bailout,
bailout
and
and
the
the
United
united
States
states
government
government
is
is
living
living
from
from
war
war
to
to
war.
war
If
if
we
we
don't
don't
get
get
a
a
big
big
war
war
soon,
soon
the
the
entire
entire
system
system
could
could
collapse,
collapse
and
and
that's
that's
not
not
going
going
to
to
bode
bode
well
well
for
for
tech
tech
jobs
jobs
in
in
the
the
future.
future
But
but
speaking
speaking
of
of
money,
money
crypto
crypto
is
is
back.
back
Bitcoin
bitcoin
with
with
16
16
k
k
at
at
the
the
beginning
beginning
of
of
the
the
year
year
and
and
just
just
broke
broke
40
40
k
k
a
a
couple
couple
days
days
ago.
ago
And
and
cryptobros
cryptobros
are
are
already
already
predicting
predicting
that
that
one
one
token
token
will
will
be
be
worth
worth
over
over
a1000000
a1000000
dollars
dollars
by
by
the
the
end
end
of
of
2024.
2024
The
the
price
price
to
to
watch
watch
for
for
is
is
69
69
k.
k
If
if
it
it
reaches
reaches
this
this
price
price
point,
point
the
the
world
world
will
will
be
be
flooded
flooded
with
with
memes
memes
that
that
will
will
elevate
elevate
FOMO
fomo
to
to
biblical
biblical
levels.
levels
In
in
other
other
words,
words
the
the
crypto
crypto
winter
winter
might
might
be
be
over,
over
bringing
bringing
us
us
a
a
fresh
fresh
new
new
round
round
of
of
Ponzi
ponzi
schemes
schemes
to
to
invest
invest
our
our
parents'
parents'
money
money
in.
in
Another
another
failed
failed
technology
technology
that
that
could
could
come
come
back
back
in
in
2024
2024
is
is
augmented
augmented
and
and
virtual
virtual
reality,
reality
thanks
thanks
primarily
primarily
to
to
the
the
Apple
apple
Vision
vision
Pro,
pro
which
which
is
is
set
set
to
to
release
release
in
in
early
early
2024.
2024
Apple
apple
has
has
done
done
some
some
revolutionary
revolutionary
things
things
in
in
the
the
past,
past
like
like
a
a
mouse
mouse
that
that
charges
charges
from
from
the
the
bottom,
bottom
and
and
if
if
these
these
VR
vr
goggles
goggles
take
take
off,
off
it
it
could
could
lead
lead
to
to
a
a
whole
whole
new
new
round
round
of
of
opportunity
opportunity
for
for
app
app
developers.
developers
However,
however
I
i
think
think
that's
that's
unlikely.
unlikely
Plenty
plenty
of
of
Apple
apple
cult
cult
members
members
will
will
drink
drink
this
this
Kool
kool
Aid,
aid
but
but
I
i
don't
don't
think
think
the
the
general
general
public
public
is
is
going
going
to
to
fork
fork
over
over
$35100
$35100
to
to
become
become
even
even
more
more
disconnected
disconnected
from
from
reality.
reality
Ultimately
ultimately
though,
though
I
i
think
think
this
this
will
will
end
end
up
up
being
being
a
a
niche
niche
product.
product
Very
very
cool
cool
to
to
some
some
people,
people
but
but
not
not
appealing
appealing
to
to
the
the
average
average
NPC.
npc
Now
now
speaking
speaking
of
of
where
where
Microsoft
microsoft
just
just
announced
announced
a
a
few
few
weeks
weeks
ago
ago
that
that
it's
it's
going
going
to
to
start
start
producing
producing
its
its
own
own
chips,
chips
like
like
the
the
Maya
maya
chip
chip
for
for
artificial
artificial
intelligence
intelligence
and
and
the
the
Cobalt
cobalt
CPU,
cpu
which
which
is
is
an
an
ARM
arm
processor
processor
designed
designed
for
for
general
general
purpose
purpose
use
use
in
in
the
the
cloud.
cloud
And
and
AWS
aws
is
is
also
also
building
building
its
its
own
own
ARM
arm
based
based
chips,
chips
which
which
are
are
cheaper
cheaper
and
and
more
more
efficient
efficient
than
than
traditional
traditional
x86
x86
chips.
chips
Now
now
as
as
of
of
today,
today
virtually
virtually
all
all
PCs
pcs
and
and
laptops
laptops
running
running
Windows
windows
run
run
CPUs
cpus
based
based
on
on
the
the
x86
x86
architecture,
architecture
But
but
that
that
may
may
not
not
be
be
the
the
case
case
in
in
the
the
future,
future
because
because
thanks
thanks
to
to
Project
project
Volterra,
volterra
it's
it's
now
now
possible
possible
to
to
run
run
Windows
windows
on
on
ARM
arm
chips.
chips
Hell,
hell
even
even
Intel
intel
is
is
going
going
to
to
manufacturing
manufacturing
ARM
arm
chips.
chips
The
the
single
single
most
most
important
important
thing
thing
anyone
anyone
does
does
with
with
the
the
CPU
cpu
though
though
is
is
play
play
video
video
games.
games
And
and
just
just
yesterday,
yesterday
we
we
got
got
our
our
first
first
look
look
at
at
the
the
GTA
gta
6
6
trailer.
trailer
This
this
will
will
likely
likely
be
be
the
the
most
most
hyped
hyped
up
up
video
video
game
game
in
in
the
the
history
history
of
of
the
the
world,
world
and
and
it's
it's
built
built
using
using
Rockstar's
rockstar's
own
own
proprietary
proprietary
RAGE
rage
game
game
engine,
engine
and
and
that
that
means
means
you
you
can't
can't
use
use
it.
it
What
what
you
you
can
can
use
use
is
is
Unity.
unity
However,
however
Unity
unity
made
made
a
a
massive
massive
blunder
blunder
in
in
2023
2023
by
by
rolling
rolling
out
out
new
new
pricing
pricing
that
that
would
would
charge
charge
developers
developers
every
every
time
time
a
a
game
game
is
is
downloaded.
downloaded
Unity
unity
developers
developers
revolted,
revolted
and
and
it
it
got
got
so
so
bad
bad
that
that
they
they
had
had
to
to
roll
roll
back
back
the
the
pricing
pricing
and
and
apologize.
apologize
That's
that's
right.
right
Apologize.
apologize
Meanwhile,
meanwhile
Unreal
unreal
Engine
engine
released
released
version
version
5.3
5.3
with
with
some
some
crazy
crazy
new
new
features
features
like
like
a
a
procedural
procedural
content
content
generation
generation
frame
frame
war
war
and
and
its
its
substrate
substrate
material
material
system
system
that
that
gets
gets
almost
almost
indistinguishable
indistinguishable
from
from
reality.
reality
Now,
now
Unreal
unreal
Engine's
engine's
parent
parent
company,
company
Epic
epic
Games,
games
sued
sued
Apple
apple
a
a
few
few
years
years
ago
ago
saying
saying
it's
it's
a
a
monopoly
monopoly
because
because
it
it
takes
takes
a
a
30
30
cut
cut
on
on
the
the
App
app
Store
store
and
and
doesn't
doesn't
allow
allow
alternative
alternative
payment
payment
methods,
methods
but
but
it
it
lost
lost
that
that
suit,
suit
and
and
that
that
was
was
held
held
up
up
on
on
appeal
appeal
in
in
2023.
2023
Epic
epic
Games
games
is
is
not
not
giving
giving
up
up
though
though
with
with
more
more
ongoing
ongoing
lawsuit
lawsuit
against
against
Google.
google
It
it
seems
seems
like
like
a
a
long
long
shot,
shot
but
but
if
if
they
they
somehow
somehow
win,
win
it
it
would
would
be
be
huge
huge
for
for
indie
indie
developers
developers
because
because
they
they
could
could
avoid
avoid
that
that
30%
30%
cut
cut
to
to
the
the
big
big
guy
guy
by
by
using
using
their
their
own
own
payment
payment
processor.
processor
But
but
now
now
Let's
let's
talk
talk
about
about
web
web
development.
development
JavaScript
javascript
land
land
is
is
as
as
crazy
crazy
as
as
ever,
ever
but
but
I
i
think
think
in
in
2024,
2024
people
people
will
will
stop
stop
building
building
new
new
JavaScript
javascript
frameworks
frameworks
because
because
nowadays
nowadays
they
they
all
all
have
have
a
a
similar
similar
developer
developer
experience
experience
with
with
signal
signal
based
based
reactivity,
reactivity
and
and
the
the
race
race
will
will
shift
shift
to
to
who
who
can
can
build
build
the
the
best
best
tools
tools
for
for
existing
existing
frameworks.
frameworks
We're
we're
seeing
seeing
more
more
visual
visual
editors
editors
and
and
IDEs
ides
for
for
frameworks
frameworks
like
like
the
the
act,
act
where
where
you
you
can
can
drag
drag
and
and
drop
drop
components
components
instead
instead
of
of
coding
coding
them
them
manually.
manually
Then
then
you
you
have
have
frameworks
frameworks
like
like
Nuxt,
nuxt
which
which
have
have
built
built
in
in
dev
dev
tools
tools
to
to
make
make
life
life
easier,
easier
but
but
pretty
pretty
soon,
soon
we
we
should
should
have
have
AI
ai
writing
writing
most
most
of
of
our
our
code.
code
There
there
are
are
tools
tools
like
like
Visual
visual
Copilot,
copilot
where
where
you
you
can
can
take
take
a
a
design
design
in
in
Figma,
figma
and
and
it
it
will
will
automatically
automatically
write
write
the
the
framework
framework
code
code
along
along
with
with
tailwind
tailwind
styles.
styles
In
in
the
the
near
near
future,
future
I
i
think
think
every
every
JavaScript
javascript
framework
framework
will
will
have
have
its
its
own
own
specialized
specialized
tooling
tooling
along
along
with
with
its
its
own
own
specially
specially
tuned
tuned
AI
ai
for
for
writing
writing
useful
useful
accurate
accurate
code.
code
Whichever
whichever
framework
framework
does
does
this
this
the
the
best
best
will
will
will
will
win
win
the
the
web
web
development
development
war
war
for
for
the
the
next
next
10
10
years.
years
And
and
I
i
think
think
there
there
will
will
be
be
a
a
lot
lot
of
of
opportunity
opportunity
on
on
the
the
web,
web
in
in
part
part
because
because
of
of
trends
trends
in
in
mobile
mobile
development.
development
This
this
trend
trend
been
been
ongoing
ongoing
for
for
many
many
years,
years
but
but
people
people
just
just
don't
don't
wanna
wanna
download
download
mobile
mobile
apps
apps
anymore.
anymore
It's
it's
not
not
like
like
10
10
years
years
ago
ago
when
when
you
you
could
could
develop
develop
an
an
app
app
in
in
your
your
mom's
mom's
basement,
basement
have
have
it
it
go
go
and
and
become
become
a
a
millionaire
millionaire
overnight.
overnight
There
there
are
are
billions
billions
of
of
people
people
using
using
smartphones
smartphones
every
every
day,
day
but
but
getting
getting
their
their
attention
attention
away
away
from
from
established
established
apps
apps
is
is
harder
harder
than
than
ever.
ever
Like,
like
as
as
you
you
can
can
here,
here
most
most
of
of
my
my
screen
screen
time
time
goes
goes
to
to
Twitter
twitter
and
and
Discord.
discord
When
when
it
it
comes
comes
to
to
building
building
mobile
mobile
apps,
apps
not
not
too
too
much
much
has
has
changed.
changed
But
but
if
if
you're
you're
building
building
cross
cross
platform,
platform
we're
we're
starting
starting
to
to
see
see
more
more
low
low
code
code
tools
tools
that
that
can
can
build
build
for
for
both
both
iOS
ios
and
and
Android
android
with
with
a
a
drag
drag
and
and
drop
drop
interface.
interface
But
but
now
now
let's
let's
talk
talk
about
about
low
low
level
level
systems
systems
languages.
languages
Rust
rust
is
is
still
still
growing
growing
incredibly
incredibly
fast,
fast
and
and
you
you
can
can
now
now
find
find
Rust
rust
code
code
in
in
the
the
Linux
linux
kernel.
kernel
There
there
was
was
some
some
armor
armor
with
with
the
the
Rust
rust
Foundation
foundation
earlier
earlier
this
this
year,
year
and
and
I
i
might
might
get
get
sued
sued
for
for
using
using
this
this
logo.
logo
But
but
there
there
are
are
some
some
other
other
up
up
and
and
coming
coming
low
low
level
level
languages
languages
as
as
well,
well
like
like
Zig,
zig
the
the
language
language
behind
behind
the
the
script
script
BUN
bun
runtime
runtime
and
and
also
also
Mojo,
mojo
a
a
Python
python
superset
superset
that
that
can
can
also
also
handle
handle
low
low
level
level
memory
memory
management,
management
making
making
it
it
both
both
approachable
approachable
and
and
extremely
extremely
performant,
performant
an
an
ideal
ideal
option
option
for
for
AI
ai
and
and
machine
machine
learning.
learning
And
and
finally,
finally
that
that
brings
brings
us
us
to
to
number
number
10,
10
the
the
elephant
elephant
in
in
the
the
room,
room
artificial
artificial
intelligence.
intelligence
ChatGPT
chatgpt
has
has
only
only
been
been
around
around
for
for
a
a
year,
year
although
although
it
it
feels
feels
like
like
a
a
lot
lot
longer.
longer
And
and
most
most
normies
normies
out
out
there
there
haven't
haven't
even
even
touched
touched
it
it
yet,
yet
but
but
that's
that's
going
going
to
to
change
change
over
over
the
the
next
next
few
few
years
years
because
because
we
we
now
now
have
have
Bard
bard
built
built
into
into
Google
google
to
to
cannibalize
cannibalize
its
its
search
search
engine.
engine
We
we
have
have
Copilot
copilot
built
built
into
into
Microsoft
microsoft
Office
office
to
to
write
write
all
all
your
your
papers
papers
and
and
do
do
all
all
your
your
spreadsheets.
spreadsheets
An
an
estimated
estimated
75%
75%
of
of
all
all
stock
stock
radio
radio
now
now
happens
happens
via
via
algorithms,
algorithms
and
and
AI
ai
is
is
being
being
weaponized
weaponized
to
to
both
both
launch
launch
and
and
defend
defend
against
against
cyberattacks.
cyberattacks
And
and
even
even
our
our
military
military
industrial
industrial
complex
complex
friends
friends
like
like
Palantir
palantir
are
are
using
using
AI
ai
to
to
help
help
blow
blow
people
people
up
up
in
in
a
a
more
more
environmentally
environmentally
friendly
friendly
and
and
equitable
equitable
way.
way
But
but
things
things
got
got
really
really
crazy
crazy
with
with
generative
generative
image
image
AI.
ai
10
10
years
years
ago,
ago
Ian
ian
Goodfellow
goodfellow
published
published
a
a
paper
paper
proposing
proposing
the
the
first
first
generative
generative
adversarial
adversarial
network.
network
7
7
years
years
later,
later
OpenAI
openai
brought
brought
us
us
to
to
fusion
fusion
models
models
with
with
DALL
dall
E,
e
but
but
they
they
still
still
sucked
sucked
pretty
pretty
hard.
hard
But
but
then
then
just
just
2
2
years
years
from
from
that
that
point,
point
we
we
get
get
images
images
good
good
enough
enough
to
to
make
make
10
10
$1,000
$1,000
a
a
month
month
on
on
OnlyFans.
onlyfans
In
in
2024,
2024
a
a
big
big
trend
trend
to
to
watch
watch
is
is
text
text
to
to
video.
video
Stable
stable
Diffusion
diffusion
just
just
released
released
a
a
text
text
to
to
video
video
model,
model
and
and
at
at
the
the
current
current
rate
rate
of
of
progress,
progress
I
i
predict
predict
that
that
by
by
the
the
end
end
of
of
2024,
2024
you'll
you'll
be
be
able
able
to
to
generate
generate
a
a
full
full
length
length
Bollywood
bollywood
quality
quality
movie
movie
from
from
your
your
laptop.
laptop
But
but
none
none
of
of
this
this
will
will
matter
matter
if
if
somebody
somebody
first
first
achieves
achieves
artificial
artificial
general
general
intelligence,
intelligence
an
an
AI
ai
that
that
can
can
actually
actually
think
think
for
for
itself
itself
and
and
not
not
just
just
regurgitate
regurgitate
and
and
remix
remix
things
things
humans
humans
have
have
already
already
gun.
gun
Some
some
people
people
even
even
think
think
this
this
has
has
already
already
been
been
achieved
achieved
by
by
open
open
AI
ai
with
with
the
the
leak
leak
of
of
QStar.
qstar
However,
however
there's
there's
a
a
French
french
guy
guy
that
that
thinks
thinks
AGI
agi
is
is
decades
decades
away,
away
and
and
some
some
think
think
it
it
will
will
never
never
be
be
achieved.
achieved
When
when
that
that
day
day
comes,
comes
it
it
could
could
be
be
a
a
great
great
day
day
for
for
humanity.
humanity
We'll
we'll
never
never
have
have
to
to
work
work
or
or
think
think
again,
again
and
and
there'll
there'll
be
be
nothing
nothing
left
left
to
to
do
do
but
but
indulge
indulge
in
in
pleasure.
pleasure
On
on
the
the
other
other
hand
hand
though,
though
you
you
may
may
live
live
to
to
see
see
AI
ai
made
made
horrors
horrors
beyond
beyond
your
your
comprehension.
comprehension
It
it
could
could
end
end
up
up
being
being
like
like
when
when
Faust
faust
made
made
a
a
deal
deal
with
with
the
the
devil
devil
for
for
unlimited
unlimited
knowledge
knowledge
and
and
pleasure.
pleasure
But
but
once
once
that
that
knowledge
knowledge
is
is
achieved,
achieved
there's
there's
a
a
trade
trade
off
off
in
in
the
the
form
form
of
of
moral
moral
and
and
spiritual
spiritual
decline.
decline
The
the
AI
ai
will
will
have
have
to
to
adjust
adjust
for
for
this
this
by
by
creating
creating
billions
billions
of
of
lab
lab
grown
grown
babies,
babies
which
which
are
are
now
now
a
a
real
real
thing,
thing
then
then
put
put
them
them
into
into
a
a
simulation
simulation
that
that
has
has
a
a
disproportionate
disproportionate
amount
amount
of
of
suffering
suffering
in
in
order
order
to
to
offset
offset
the
the
pleasures
pleasures
experienced
experienced
by
by
the
the
AI.
ai
In
in
fact,
fact
you
you
might
might
be
be
in
in
the
the
simulation
simulation
right
right
now.
now
Why
why
else
else
would
would
you
you
be
be
watching
watching
a
a
video
video
gaslighting
gaslighting
you
you
into
into
thinking
thinking
you're
you're
in
in
a
a
simulation?
simulation
You'd
you'd
have
have
to
to
be
be
crazy
crazy
to
to
think
think
we're
we're
not
not
in
in
a
a
simulation
simulation
right
right
now.
now
But
but
again
again
congratulations
congratulations
for
for
making
making
it
it
to
to
round
round
2024.
2024
Thanks
thanks
for
for
watching,
watching
and
and
I
i
will
will
see
see
you
you
in
in
the
the
next
next
one.
one
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The technology industry is currently at high interest rates, and the job market is currently at a high demand. There is a shift in age of technology and the development of AI and machine learning is becoming more popular, leading to a shift in the age of technology and the rise of low-level systems and low-coding tools. The future of AI is still far out, but there is potential for artificial general intelligence to lead to pleasures and moral and spiritual decline.
You probably won’t survive 2024... Top 10 Tech Trends
Congratulations. You survived yet another year in the simulation. If you still have a job in tech, it means you survived massive layoffs, didn't get drafted into a war, and outsmarted the artificial intelligence that your boss wants to replace you with. 2023 was the craziest year ever, but at the rate things are accelerating, it'll look like nothing compared to 2024. I care deeply about a future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there. But the future ain't what it used to be. In today's video, we'll look at 10 trends in technology that you can take advantage of in 2024. Let's get started by looking at the health of the job market. At the beginning of 2023, we had massive layoffs from magnificent 7 companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Not only did flood the job market with more talent, but simultaneously, the number of open jobs declined by about 60% based on data from true up dot io. And that's been a 1, 2 punch to the nuts for junior developers looking to get into the industry. In 2021, we had people working multiple full time jobs simultaneously, thanks to remote work, and you could land these jobs by simply taking a 100 second boot camp. But today, day, things look a lot different. Managers are still desperately trying to get people back into the office, and you can find all kinds of anecdotes on Reddit about how brutal the job market is right now. It's been a rough year, but there is some hope. If we look closely at the chart, you'll notice that job openings are up 13.8% from earlier this year, and all the big bang companies have unfrozen their hiring freezes. Although there aren't nearly as many open jobs as there used to be, so I'd be cautiously optimistic about an improving job market going into 2024. But lot of that depends on the state of the world. We're still in a high interest rate environment, which is not ideal for cash burning startups that need that easy money to hire a bunch of people to grow quickly. Just day, Spotify did its 3rd layoff of the year, where it severed about 1500 heads, which it blamed on the higher cost of capital. These high rates have also put the real estate market at a stand dramatically reducing the total number of transactions because nobody wants to pay $900,000 for a cardboard box with an 8% mortgage. The automotive industry is also struggling, and we saw Tesla prices come way down in 2023, which was a shock to some people who thought their Tesla was an appreciating asset just a year ago. The economy, and especially technology, is addicted to low rates, but we've also got some wars going on. Now, I don't stand with Palestine, I don't stand with Israel, I don't stand Ukraine, I don't stand with Russia. I stand with Lockheed Martin and Boeing and the military industrial complex. These companies make the tools we need to blow each other up, and when you stand with that team, you really can't lose. What you have to realize is that you're living paycheck to paycheck, your employer is living bailout to bailout, and the United States government is living from war to war. If we don't get a big war soon, the entire system could collapse, and that's not going to bode well for tech jobs in the future. But speaking of money, crypto is back. Bitcoin with 16 k at the beginning of the year and just broke 40 k a couple days ago. And cryptobros are already predicting that one token will be worth over a1000000 dollars by the end of 2024. The price to watch for is 69 k. If it reaches this price point, the world will be flooded with memes that will elevate FOMO to biblical levels. In other words, the crypto winter might be over, bringing us a fresh new round of Ponzi schemes to invest our parents' money in. Another failed technology that could come back in 2024 is augmented and virtual reality, thanks primarily to the Apple Vision Pro, which is set to release in early 2024. Apple has done some revolutionary things in the past, like a mouse that charges from the bottom, and if these VR goggles take off, it could lead to a whole new round of opportunity for app developers. However, I think that's unlikely. Plenty of Apple cult members will drink this Kool Aid, but I don't think the general public is going to fork over $35100 to become even more disconnected from reality. Ultimately though, I think this will end up being a niche product. Very cool to some people, but not appealing to the average NPC. Now speaking of where Microsoft just announced a few weeks ago that it's going to start producing its own chips, like the Maya chip for artificial intelligence and the Cobalt CPU, which is an ARM processor designed for general purpose use in the cloud. And AWS is also building its own ARM based chips, which are cheaper and more efficient than traditional x86 chips. Now as of today, virtually all PCs and laptops running Windows run CPUs based on the x86 architecture, But that may not be the case in the future, because thanks to Project Volterra, it's now possible to run Windows on ARM chips. Hell, even Intel is going to manufacturing ARM chips. The single most important thing anyone does with the CPU though is play video games. And just yesterday, we got our first look at the GTA 6 trailer. This will likely be the most hyped up video game in the history of the world, and it's built using Rockstar's own proprietary RAGE game engine, and that means you can't use it. What you can use is Unity. However, Unity made a massive blunder in 2023 by rolling out new pricing that would charge developers every time a game is downloaded. Unity developers revolted, and it got so bad that they had to roll back the pricing and apologize. That's right. Apologize. Meanwhile, Unreal Engine released version 5.3 with some crazy new features like a procedural content generation frame war and its substrate material system that gets almost indistinguishable from reality. Now, Unreal Engine's parent company, Epic Games, sued Apple a few years ago saying it's a monopoly because it takes a 30 cut on the App Store and doesn't allow alternative payment methods, but it lost that suit, and that was held up on appeal in 2023. Epic Games is not giving up though with more ongoing lawsuit against Google. It seems like a long shot, but if they somehow win, it would be huge for indie developers because they could avoid that 30% cut to the big guy by using their own payment processor. But now Let's talk about web development. JavaScript land is as crazy as ever, but I think in 2024, people will stop building new JavaScript frameworks because nowadays they all have a similar developer experience with signal based reactivity, and the race will shift to who can build the best tools for existing frameworks. We're seeing more visual editors and IDEs for frameworks like the act, where you can drag and drop components instead of coding them manually. Then you have frameworks like Nuxt, which have built in dev tools to make life easier, but pretty soon, we should have AI writing most of our code. There are tools like Visual Copilot, where you can take a design in Figma, and it will automatically write the framework code along with tailwind styles. In the near future, I think every JavaScript framework will have its own specialized tooling along with its own specially tuned AI for writing useful accurate code. Whichever framework does this the best will will win the web development war for the next 10 years. And I think there will be a lot of opportunity on the web, in part because of trends in mobile development. This trend been ongoing for many years, but people just don't wanna download mobile apps anymore. It's not like 10 years ago when you could develop an app in your mom's basement, have it go and become a millionaire overnight. There are billions of people using smartphones every day, but getting their attention away from established apps is harder than ever. Like, as you can here, most of my screen time goes to Twitter and Discord. When it comes to building mobile apps, not too much has changed. But if you're building cross platform, we're starting to see more low code tools that can build for both iOS and Android with a drag and drop interface. But now let's talk about low level systems languages. Rust is still growing incredibly fast, and you can now find Rust code in the Linux kernel. There was some armor with the Rust Foundation earlier this year, and I might get sued for using this logo. But there are some other up and coming low level languages as well, like Zig, the language behind the script BUN runtime and also Mojo, a Python superset that can also handle low level memory management, making it both approachable and extremely performant, an ideal option for AI and machine learning. And finally, that brings us to number 10, the elephant in the room, artificial intelligence. ChatGPT has only been around for a year, although it feels like a lot longer. And most normies out there haven't even touched it yet, but that's going to change over the next few years because we now have Bard built into Google to cannibalize its search engine. We have Copilot built into Microsoft Office to write all your papers and do all your spreadsheets. An estimated 75% of all stock radio now happens via algorithms, and AI is being weaponized to both launch and defend against cyberattacks. And even our military industrial complex friends like Palantir are using AI to help blow people up in a more environmentally friendly and equitable way. But things got really crazy with generative image AI. 10 years ago, Ian Goodfellow published a paper proposing the first generative adversarial network. 7 years later, OpenAI brought us to fusion models with DALL E, but they still sucked pretty hard. But then just 2 years from that point, we get images good enough to make 10 $1,000 a month on OnlyFans. In 2024, a big trend to watch is text to video. Stable Diffusion just released a text to video model, and at the current rate of progress, I predict that by the end of 2024, you'll be able to generate a full length Bollywood quality movie from your laptop. But none of this will matter if somebody first achieves artificial general intelligence, an AI that can actually think for itself and not just regurgitate and remix things humans have already gun. Some people even think this has already been achieved by open AI with the leak of QStar. However, there's a French guy that thinks AGI is decades away, and some think it will never be achieved. When that day comes, it could be a great day for humanity. We'll never have to work or think again, and there'll be nothing left to do but indulge in pleasure. On the other hand though, you may live to see AI made horrors beyond your comprehension. It could end up being like when Faust made a deal with the devil for unlimited knowledge and pleasure. But once that knowledge is achieved, there's a trade off in the form of moral and spiritual decline. The AI will have to adjust for this by creating billions of lab grown babies, which are now a real thing, then put them into a simulation that has a disproportionate amount of suffering in order to offset the pleasures experienced by the AI. In fact, you might be in the simulation right now. Why else would you be watching a video gaslighting you into thinking you're in a simulation? You'd have to be crazy to think we're not in a simulation right now. But again congratulations for making it to round 2024. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
The technology industry is currently at high interest rates, and the job market is currently at a high demand. There is a shift in age of technology and the development of AI and machine learning is becoming more popular, leading to a shift in the age of technology and the rise of low-level systems and low-coding tools. The future of AI is still far out, but there is potential for artificial general intelligence to lead to pleasures and moral and spiritual decline.