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Discussion on: Becoming disillusioned with career in tech as a software engineer

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You don't need to pursue grand projects like tesla - because they actually do not contain too much innovation as far as code is concerned, sans autonomous driving but that's not fun - it's a series of meandering tuning and model refreshing until it starts to work.

However there is relatively smaller, but ground breaking tech just waiting to be full mapped out and delivered. I personally was toying with an idea of tensor earth, which, if I wrapped my head around it correctly - can lower the size of the earth topology down from gigabytes of raw data to generative 15 megabytes or so. depending on desired precision. And then also making that on compute so that it can be directly sampled.
And that can be either sold to serious companies or made under any attribution + permitted commercial license with donation revenue.

And even failing experimental projects like that - you can always toy around with stuff, like old machines or just some tech. Again from personal examples - I've been poking vectrex assembly on and off. It's kinda fun.

One does not simply just run out to create something profitable if you want that rush of excitement - you start with f*cking around and finding out and from there, if you're smart about it, you can build a business case.