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What's the Next Thing?

by c3534l on 1/7/25, 12:57 AM with 5 comments

Years ago, people would have said machine learning (right), devops (okay), iot (yeah, no). what's the new exciting thing 10 years later?

  • by ThrowawayR2 on 1/7/25, 1:27 AM

    IoT is still expanding steadily; the hype peddlers and fad chasers have largely ignored it because there's no bubble for them to cash in on. Smart TVs, internet enabled appliances, robot vacuums, Alexa devices, Phillips Hue lighting, smart thermostats, etc. are all IoT.

    The industrial IoT market is still expanding too but ordinary developers wouldn't be able to observe it unless they work in that niche specifically.

  • by coldtea on 1/7/25, 1:02 AM

    If you mean the current marketing hype, in the same vein as those hyped niches, currently it's LLM AI.

  • by divnat2023 on 1/7/25, 2:44 AM

    Robot assistants.