Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes)

swyx 2022-09-01

Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content. Final talk video:

The livestream was here https://twitter.com/fubits/status/1565673135940243457

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bGi3KimlbuS0iLG5CCaUnIrzfOno4IbhaZdbI8oBrNQ/edit?usp=sharing

Reception

Intro

shtick
- why are you not rich?
- this talk will change the way you think about your tech career
What does it mean to be Full Stack?

Part 1: the standard paradigm: frontend/backend

the stupid chart
people happy https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/opinions
- but not paid https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#salary-comp-total
- why not rich
2010 https://s2.studylib.net/store/data/017738962_1-def8fa4e10b06cfb07eb8f06875cdfed-768x994.png
2015 https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/our-1-600-hour-javascript-coding-curriculum-d4f151b782d2/
2017 https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-roadmap-to-becoming-a-web-developer-in-2017-b6ac3dddd0cf/
2022 https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn
- https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-certifications/
- 2021 https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-a-data-science-curriculum-with-advanced-math-and-machine-learning/ - client-server, then three tier architecture: client-server-db
- LAMP stack, MEAN stack, MERN stack, JAM stack, FOFE/BOFE
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/serverless-multi-tier-architectures-api-gateway-lambda/three-tier-architecture-overview.html
- https://managementmania.com/en/three-tier-architecture
- maybe in modern paradigm, it is client-server-db-devops

Part 2: reality

name your fave apps
- holotypes https://twitter.com/arthurwuhoo/status/1470489178186170374/photo/1
Motivational questions
- how do you build this https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-time/page/2/2
- arxiv sanity
- search engine
- shazam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32520593
- all the app types
- talk about the feature progress path
  - blog -> features
    - …
    - AB test
      - AB test of AB tests? https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/06/detecting-interference—an-a-b-test-of-a-b-tests
  - app -> features

transition

4 departures:

3: The Local First App

here is the standard paradigm
- https://appwrite-todo-with-svelte.vercel.app/#/todos so slow
PWA
the WASM app: figma
client-serverless-server
client-server-offline-first
client-edge-serverless-server
- deno
examples

4: The Long Running Jobs

queues
schedulers
- fails all the time
temporal pitch: https://www.swyx.io/temporal-miami
this is a job:

5: Data Engineering Iceberg

https://benn.substack.com/p/the-data-os yc data
data blind spot
Analytical usecase
- ETL
- ELT
- ELT+reverseETL https://medium.com/memory-leak/reverse-etl-a-primer-4e6694dcc7fb
- EtLT?
- ML:
  - Explore, Label, Optimize
  - Cleaning + Modeling + Training + Predicting + Deployment + Monitoring
  - https://www.jcchouinard.com/machine-learning/ breakdown of DE, DA, MLE
  - Exciting: Computer Vision, Self Driving, NLP, Deep Learning, Ethics
  - Boring: Recommendation (Embeddings), Classification/NLP, Search & Ranking, Anomaly Detection, A/B Testing, Spam/Fraud Risk
Operational usage
- V = f(d)
- feedback
- consistency
- live
- 2000: amazon a store for every customer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9c1Y7hgGwE
- 2010: google-yahoo
- 2016: netflix https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1445768114109435923
- 2020: tiktok-google https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/tiktok-just-ended-googles-15-year-rein-as-worlds-most-popular-web-domain.html

6: Software 3.0

https://thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/p/stable-diffusion-is-the-most-important
x https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/prompt-engineering-the-career-of-future-2fb93f90f117
- meme https://miro.medium.com/max/1376/1*bSyi3uamxCzRjia2IwIBFw.png
capabilities (Markov models, Large Language Models)
- how large is large https://miro.medium.com/max/565/1*9pt5d4D7aGJqUqpra1tMzg.png
  - https://miro.medium.com/max/582/1*C-KNWQC_wXh-Q2wc6VPK1g.png
- translation https://towardsdatascience.com/software-3-0-how-prompting-will-change-the-rules-of-the-game-a982fbfe1e0
  - generating SQL https://blog.seekwell.io/gpt3
  - explaining jokes https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1511359920804876298/photo/1
- Coding:
  - copilot
  - https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode/competition_level_code_generation_with_alphacode.pdf
  - alpha go, alphafold
- Poetry, Emojis, Lists: https://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2021/04/21/prompt-engineering-tips-and-tricks/#a-few-more-examples
- filling in text: https://generative.ink/posts/methods-of-prompt-programming/#by-demonstration-n-shot
- image filling in
  - figma https://twitter.com/RemitNotPaucity/status/1562319004563173376?s=20&t=fPSI5JhLzkuZLFB7fntzoA
  - outfilling photoshop https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/show_rstablediffusion_integrating_sd_in_photoshop/
- text to image
- image to image https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wy7oa5/img2img_is_just_unreal_im_stunned/
- video to video
  - https://twitter.com/karenxcheng/status/1564626773001719813
  - https://twitter.com/paultrillo/status/1562106954096381952
- tricking humans https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/23/google-fires-software-engineer-who-claims-ai-chatbot-is-sentient
  - fooling humans https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/
  - art contest https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode/competition_level_code_generation_with_alphacode.pdf
  - helping you sleep https://anchor.fm/deepdreams
- business ideas https://ideasai.com/
  - racoon heist https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1555626060384911360
  - not picking up humans https://www.aiweirdness.com/gpt-3-tries-pickup-lines/
  - optimizing titles https://minimaxir.com/2022/08/gpt3-blog-title-optimizer/
this will be a job https://promptbase.com/
there’s a book https://generative.ink/posts/methods-of-prompt-programming/
- https://dallery.gallery/the-dalle-2-prompt-book/

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So. what does it mean to be full stack?

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Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes)

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