I am mentally burned out, I can’t read about one more ai model, i can’t read about one more surveillance, I can’t read about anything new anymore. Why can’t people just make a better battery? How about a nice sounding commercially available keyboard? I am exhausted of reading posts after posts after posts, anthropic released this master model, deepseek released this giga model, there’s a new surveillance system, new spyware, new processor, new gpu, new location software, then I avoid then people start to literally start to talk at me about how their favourite country is using their favourite technology, my peers will talk about American professors encouraging adoption of ai, my tech pilled comrades will talk about China teaching deepseek to kids in school, like of it was upto me, kids wouldn’t see a piece of tech till 5 and only get basic com sci at 6, literally please for the sake of God learn to live for a moment instead of constantly chasing the next big thing and let others live too. We don’t need more, we have more than enough in the world, this world is drowning in our garbage please let the world live and let people like me live. Please don’t drive us to death.
Yeah the specialization within tech has made it trickier to see the bigger pictures. I think it’s also because tech has gone from being a backend feature, the thing an industry uses behind the scenes to get the public-facing work done, to being the front and center, public-facing work itself.