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Comment Re:This article seems a slant towards journalism j (Score 1) 141

Totally disagree on deepseek. Deepseek doesn't mean you need 5% of the GPUs, it means various aspects of AI are now 95% cheaper. That raises overall demand and makes more uses of AI viable. You can now afford to run a better AI for the same price.

Agree on the overall premise that predicting 2030, let alone 2050, is likely a fruitless exercise. Photography was a viable industry 100 years ago and 30 years ago. Only in the last 10 years with the rise of influencers has the value of it completely tanked. A better analogy is that photography 30 years ago, you might have managed to do it without leveraging Photoshop as a tool. Anyone who has made it the past decade is proficient in PS or an equivalent as industries adopt new tools.

The way I develop software now does not closely resemble the way I started my career.

Comment Re:This article seems a slant towards journalism j (Score 2) 141

Getting into tech was a trend visible to late gen X, and if you chose it for your career it was probably a good choice. Certainly worked out for me. That's very different from saying that getting into well respected creative fields were bad career moves. Who knew that writing words was going to get so commoditized?
  Similarly, we've been banging the STEM drum for decades. Not everyone is suited for a STEM career, and we shouldn't try to force feed everyone into doing it. A lot of the fields in the articles were the places non-STEM used to go. STEM isn't safe either, we're just not quite there yet with AI. We're a lot closer than we were last year, but that's a separate topic.

But the last bit, telling people to get into GPUs and Quantum? That's like telling someone they aren't hustling enough and need to go door to door and drop off resumes to whoever answers until they land a job. I'm technically an EE, so I know a lot of folks who did it. It's not something you can go train for in six months, it's generally something where graduate degrees are preferred. Quantum is the toughest maths I've ever tried to tackle, and I consider myself good at math to a point where the word appears on my diploma. We did a book club at work on quantum a while back, and I can barely understand the simplest of the basics enough to follow along once you try to understand it beyond Schrödinger's cat. I'd rather tell a kid to go take a computer graphics course at undergrad and then go apply to NVDA.

Comment Re:People aren't migrating (Score 1) 150

> If the machine is only a few months old, look at the TPM and Secure Boot settings in the BIOS. These have to be enabled to pass the hardware check.

I expect a company like MS to tell me that my hardware is supported and to enable things in BIOS, if I have a MB that supports the settings. MS isn't some small developer who doesn't have the resources to make a hardware compatibility list based on actual model numbers.

Comment "younger employees" (Score 1) 102

I wonder if what JPMorgan calls "younger employees", most companies would call "older employees with young children". New grads have their own sets of issues, but if you're a few years out of school, you're not a "younger employee" any more.
  It's too bad none of the articles define what JPMorgan means.

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