raj555

I ask this for inspiration.

I am a junior dev at a tier 2 company in India. The job is kinda boring but pay is good for an early 20s guy. I was looking to boost my interest in tech by looking at Indian tech scene but its disappointing. The tech companies are either old school outsourcing sweatshops like WITCH companies or new age copy cats like Ola, or YADA - yet another delivery app. There are some edutech and fintech ones but basically all companies in a sector are boring rehash cookie cutter ones.

I want to ask are there any gems hiding from public view that savvy HN members know of? What Indian products you know of that you like or recommend. Also, is it the same for tech in all countries outside USA?

I ask this in the context of deciding the "worth" of authors of textbooks. What I mean is if someone got PhD in tier 2 uni but is prof at tier 1 like Ivy League in US, is he deemed "better" than the opposite, that is PhD from tier 1 but prof in tier 2? With no other info about authors I base my judgement on this fact so want to know your opinion.

(Some authors would have graduated from European uni that I have never heard of, outside Gottingen, Oxford, Cambridge, but would be teaching at tier 1/2 US uni so it becomes very hard to judge, but I imagine European uni teach better so give higher weightage lol)

I live in Bangalore and work as a junior SDE at some unknown small company and want to boost my career. My current job is maintaining some boring CRUD like apps in python/C++. I see the industry is obssessed with AI esp lang model ones or at least it seems in the echo chamber. My question is what to learn and invest in for long term relevance. Databases? OS? IoT? AwS? COBOL? I am open for anything and everything. I love programming and want to do interesting things not sure what tho lol.

I somewhat understand how it generates texts, but I don't understand how can it understand the query to generate the text. I googled and landed on [1] which doesn't answer me. Why is there no info on this part anywhere?

[1] https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/38294/how-does-chatgpt-respond-to-novel-prompts-and-commands