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mathieu@laptop:~/blog/engineering$ cat shebang-the-future.txt
Sometimes I feel I'm I the future and sometimes I feel stuck in the past. And I kinda like it.
I grew up in the 80s/90s and I'm a sucker for the games, music and art from that time. Probably everyone has that nostalgic feeling from a time long due. For me that time was more than just simple. The 80s and especially the 90s was the discovery of personal computers, internet and digital entertainment. It was also the time that a lot of these technologies where new, undiscovered and full with surprises. Nobody really knew how and where to use it for and everyone just sort of did something. Exploring. Poking.
While I occasionally startup Dosbox, play my favourite childhood games or get lost in a nostalgic trip of pixel art and 80s music I do also love the present.
The current preset, at least in my bubble, is full with (sometimes very controversial) buzz about AI, LLM and the whole shebang (pun intended). And while I do sometimes think there is way more buzz than there is actually things 'happening', I can't deny the world is changing. Again. These technologies are also new, undiscovered and full with surprises. And I also think that, again, nobody really knows how and where to use it for. We sort of do things, again.
I mean. There is a gigantic amount of stuff being build and created that noone really can grasp. But like the 80s, 90s and even the 00s, things will settle, dust will fall and most things will become more mainstream and understood by the masses. Until then I feel like we are exploring, again.
My thoughts for now:
LLM, or AI as most call it, will be the connecting layer between human language and (mostly automated) processes that system run and act on. Through one interface (a GPT-like chat window, a direct voice activated button or anything that capture human language and vision), a LLM will convert the users intent to working processes. No more endless buttons and dials and no more filling 5 pages of forms fields. Just dialogue.
And I have the privilege to build these systems, again! So I shebang #!/bin/bash myself back to terminal style like the 90s while forging the future.
(Until of course, the next big thing, or if I'm completely wrong.)
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