# 2025 Continuing on the [[Agentic Frameworks]] and [[Artificial Intelligence]] # 2024 My current interest lies in the intersection of the [[Agentic Frameworks]] and [[Artificial Intelligence]]. Political philosophy and the origin of the modern representative democracy, starting from Hobbes's [[Leviathan]]. The goal is to read and synthesize around the core original texts. * [[The Age of Revolution]] * [[The Human Condition]] # 2023 I am trying to understand how the tech culture has changed over the last 20~40 years. This is a loaded topic, but I am taking a bottom-up approach, looking at technologies, methodologies, and peoples' mindsets. Writing under the tag #tech-history. ## Tech industry change since 1980s * Methodologies - what has aged well, what hasn’t. * Is software engineering a real engineering? * Who are the role books that are popular, etc. * Programming Languages - [[Why were we so obsessed with Programming Languages?]], and their changes. * Paradigms * Our obsession with the Object-oriented programming ## [[Techno Utopia]] * Underlying ideology behind technological movement. * How we've envisioned the future to be. * Rise and fall of [[Richard M Stallman|FSF]] / hacker / tech culture ## Tech Career and Role Model * Linguistic drift from a *Programmer* to a *Software Engineer*, with few others - *coder*, *developer*, and *architect* along the way. * Established Careers - FAANG and [levels.fyi](https://www.levels.fyi/) * Origin of the [[Titles and Staff Engineer]]; * how was this term created? * how is this role defined? * is there a [[Realism]] happening? * Origin and manifestation of dual track career. * Change of role models in the tech industry * "Hacker" as described by the MIT media lab / Paul Graham. * Lone wolf, "rockstar" programmers * "glue" engineers.