Comment by lionkor
2 hours ago
> You have to stay on your feet no matter what technology you use
This was said about web technologies and crypto and every other hype cycle, and it's never been true at all. The vast majority of people are okay just picking something reasonable or a default, and sticking with it.
It's not difficult to imagine that pi.dev will be around in 10 years, and it's not difficult to imagine that vim, visual studio, vscode, linux and ext4 will still be around in 10 years.
I don't know what kind of massive innovation you see here. This is like flying cars; every couple years there's a demo of a flying car of some variety, some people immediately short mercedes, and 5 years later mercedes is still around, making slightly more modern cars than before.
If you really believe that the tech-news hype cycle reflects reality, I urge you to go solve an advent of code in a normal programming language, maybe that'll help get you back on track.
The reality of that is that ChatGPT in 2022 wasn't very good at Advent of Code. In 2025, it's much more capable. (AoC officially recommends not using AI at all. Which you shouldn't, so your brain gets exercise.)
> it's never been true at all.
Like, at all? The problem with "never" is entire platforms get deprecated and people get laid off. So sure, you can have a job in $technology for as long as you've got that job, but if you get laid off but $technology is deprecated, you're in for a bit of a rough patch.
For reference, here's a couple of $technologies that, 10 years ago, you have gotten a job in, but if you were laid off recently, you'll have a tougher time finding a job in:
Apache Mesos -> Kubernetes. Xamarin (mobile dev). Hadoop -> Databricks. Ember.js.
(Not saying it's impossible, just that you said "never" and "at all" so you'd have to get really lucky.)