# Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes)

Original: https://swyx.io/paradigm-lost
Published: 2022-09-01

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

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

{% youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsTAcQJ619o %}

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

## Slides

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

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## 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
			- https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql
			- https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/04/rill-wants-to-rethink-bi-dashboards-with-embedded-database-and-instant-ux/
			- https://stopa.io/post/296
			- appsync https://medium.com/capgemini-norway/destroying-backends-with-amplify-appsync-graphql-api-5521c0e62a4c
			- https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
			- https://riffle.systems/essays/prelude/
		- 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
			- https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1528906372917604352/photo/1
			- python > js https://www.hntrends.com/2022/june.html?compare=Python&compare=TypeScript&compare=golang&compare=JavaScript&compare=Ruby&compare=Rust&compare=Java&compare=C%2B%2B&compare=C&compare=kotlin
			- https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#salary-comp-total
		- 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](https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2018/embeddingsattwitter)),  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
				- generative adversarial models https://machinelearningmastery.com/what-are-generative-adversarial-networks-gans/
				- llama https://pub.towardsai.net/i-spent-15-in-dall-e-2-credits-creating-this-ai-image-and-heres-what-i-learned-52f352912025
				- medieval wifi https://twitter.com/benjamin_hilton/status/1519417377720524800
				- https://www.craiyon.com/
					- https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1554080896797622273
					- https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1553782316832800768
					- https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1557723658462035969
					- https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1551584953045258240
					- https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1554125991307612160
					- https://twitter.com/timsoret/status/1560339610588282880
					- https://twitter.com/maccaw/status/1561716215760011264
					- https://twitter.com/JIYUKENKYU_jp/status/1554758475368243200
				-  https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1561019187451011074
			- image to image https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wy7oa5/img2img_is_just_unreal_im_stunned/
				- https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest
				- restoring art https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyaz3s/i_used_img2img_to_devandalize_ecce_homo/
				- image prompt https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1563898516950265856
			- 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/

## end

 So. what does it mean to be full stack?
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