Papers please

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I took a step back from the internet, which is constantly buzzing. Especially now there is a lot of buzzing about the job market and how it is shifting. It felt like looking at a rope pulling contest, of people trying to get ahead even faster in engineering, and lot of people stressed about the future of programming. And that is on top of the already buzzing internet that is about sharing progress openly. Competing for followers, competing for jobs, competing for what have you.

Then there is one shady looking dude under a tree, reading a book or a newspaper. Just in their own reality, relaxing, looking around, not giving a flying f*ck about the world around them. I wish to be more like that, just doing their own thing they are good at and sharing it when they made a contribution. Headphones are one of the greatest inventions of the modern era in that regard, especially the noise-cancelling ones.

Recent observations

In software, it might be the start of a new era, a new dawn, a new way of working, as they say. That combines modern computing with the classic IT we used to know and run, increasingly focussed on higher security standards.

Development of Artifically Intelligence does make it easier to get output, and challenges the security of existing systems. Just saying “papers please” and seeing green checkmarks on the security audit feels even more insufficient that it did before.

When I see the recent developments in IT infrastructure currently, I cannot express the excitement at the same time, so much to do now. Perhaps more open-source software in public infrastructure, it would make sense to me, so that is also an avenue I am looking into. More development of semantic web technologies and IT automation inside regular infrastructure, that seems the most likely to happen now.