The amazing, but unsettling future of technology...

people always ask me Jeff what is the future going to be like but I never know how to answer because as a large language model my training data only goes back to July last year I predicted most of us wouldn't survive 2024 so if you're a human watching this congratulations to you for still being alive just this year brain chips were installed in real humans Tech monopolies were shattered Hawk TW did a massive crypto scam but artificial super intelligence never came and for the 50th time in a row it turned out yet again not to

be the year of the Linux desktop it's one hell of a time to be alive but one thing's for sure 2025 is going to be even more wild in today's video we'll look at 13 Trends in technology that might make you rich or might make you cry assuming they don't kill you first it is January 3rd 2025 and you're watching the code report if you're an aspiring programmer the elephant in the room right now is artificial intelligence and specifically these new reasoning models like open AI 03 which just came out last week and not only

is 03a superior programmer but what's most significant about it is that it's the first model to do well on the arc AGI benchmark which is a benchmark designed specifically to evaluate whether a model can think invent and reason just like humans and that's a big deal because if AI can truly reason it'll put an end to many white collar jobs especially programming despite open ai's impressive charts and unintelligent people calling it artificial general intelligence there are good reasons to be highly skeptical of 03 like currently it costs thousands of dollars per task and compute although

its efficiency will likely improve over time it still fails on very simple art questions that a human could easily solve and when they demoed it they just had it build a simple python app run this like python script it will launch a server um and um locally with a with a with a UI that contains a text box which is pretty lame if they're hyping this thing up as the edge of AGI because a true AGI would easily be able to build a GTA 6 caliber game give us a cure for cancer engineer vehicles that

can travel faster than light and it should even be able to build gp5 but the best this International Grandmaster coder could give us on demo day is a crappy python app however the a hype train will still go strong in 2025 but the big way that companies will pump their stock prices with AI in 2025 is with this new buzzword agents all the big companies are throwing out this buzzword and whoever can best sell these agents to Enterprise is going to make it killing but what is an AI agent well basically it's just a large

language model that has access to your environment to automatically analyze data and take action when necessary like instead of paying a human security guard you could have an AI agent manage the security cameras for your business and then when anomalies are detected automatically summon a Rob dog with a machine gun strap to it but if you're a programmer there are already AI agents like Devon which are explicitly marketed towards Enterprise to replace programmers that's not a great Trend if you're looking to start a career in programming in 2025 but don't feel bad because eventually all

jobs will go to the robots Tesla is developing Optimus Nvidia has its own Army of robots but the most impressive example is figure a human-like robot with an open AI brain designed to work in factories it looks like robot Tech is going to pop off for the next 10 years or so and eventually every home will have its own robot assist and of course a robot dog with a 44 magnum tape to its head for security but now let's look at the actual Tech job market my go-to source for Tech hiring Trends is true up

iio and you'll notice that the market has been pretty stagnant since the peak in 2022 we're still down over 50% from the peak in terms of open tech jobs but on the bright side they're up over 30% from the low in addition there were tons of tech layoffs in 2024 but that layoff rate is showed signs of slowing down the scariest chart though comes from the Federal Reserve which shows software development job postings on the website in and indeed they have gone down quite a bit since the peak is software engineering has always been a

volatile career path but there's still demand for talented programmers and there will be big rewards for those who can actually code while leveraging AI to become 10x more productive but you have 80,000 hours in your career 40 hours a week 50 weeks a year for 40 years that's a lot of time to make a positive impact on the world and 880,000 hours the sponsor of today's video can help you do that if you're young you've probably heard advice like Follow Your Passion do what you love and take the initiative but these cliches are not based

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totally free because it's nonprofit and could to be the Catalyst that changes your direction in life but another thing that could change your life is a brain chip in 2024 the first neuralink brain chips were installed in real humans the first patient's brain chip retracted a little bit but overall it gave him superhuman abilities to control computer screens with his thoughts which is life-changing when you don't have the ability to use your arms or legs I don't think the average person will get a brain ship this year but non-invasive brain wave scanners or Electro andrs

might be installed in your car or your VR headset in the near future but if we go back to the beginning of 2024 the biggest product release was the Apple Vision Pro it was supposed to launch the world into the spatial Computing age and although it's an impressively engineered product apple is already scaled back production and there are rumors that they're going to discontinue it altogether VR will continue to be a niche area in Tech but companies are trying to make augmented reality more cool with things like the Rayband smart glasses from meta and even

Google might get back into the smart glasses race with project Astra where you have ai watch the world around you at all times while arvr continues to struggle for mainstream adoption one technology that continues to plot forward is Quantum Computing just weeks ago Google unveiled its Willow chip which was a major Leap Forward by reducing the error rate in quantum computers the technology is not totally there yet but people are now starting to worry about postquantum cryptography I don't think quantum computers will break RSA in 2025 but one thing that is breaking is all the

CN C++ code used by the government the military wants to change this and they're using a tool called tractor where the goal is to translate C and C++ code into rust using a variety of Technologies including large language models what could possibly go wrong there's a high probability this won't actually work like most DARPA projects but still rust is being used everywhere now and might be one of the best languages to learn if you want to keep an actual programming job in the future but where does that leave the JavaScript developer well it does feel

like we've seen a Slowdown in the development of new JavaScript Frameworks is some Frameworks like nextjs and spelt are continuing to reinvent themselves and this has motivated some developers to go back to PHP and larabel which itself just raised a bunch of VC money meanwhile you have Frameworks like Vue and N which are building out massive ecosystems like Lar with UI libraries fully managed backend services and so on but many developers especially Indie hackers are now choosing JavaScript Frameworks based on which ones are best supported by AI tools because nowadays you can use tools like

vzer or bolt to get a working prototype and UI done in seconds the JavaScript race in 2025 is not about Frameworks but rather who can build the best AI powered tooling around their framework but if you want to get rich you shouldn't learn JavaScript Frameworks you should learn how to do your own crypto Ponzi schemes last year I predicted Bitcoin would hit 69420 then explode from there and currently it's sitting right around 100k this has opened the door to Innovative new rug pools like Daddy token or hawwa and now there's a bunch of AI powered

alt coins that somehow created billions of dollars in value out of thin air but the most impressive free money glitch recently has been micro strategy which uses the business strategy of borrowing money to buy Bitcoin causing the price to go up which Rises faster than the cost to service the debt thus creating a self-sustaining infinite money glitch it's like a Ponzi scheme but fully legal and transparent and in theory should continue to work until the US dollar is worthless but the direction of crypto and Tech in general depends a lot on what president Trump president

Elon and fed chairman Jerome Powell do over the next few years according to VC whale Mark andrees feds had previously told him not to even invest in AI because they're only going to allow a few big companies to control it Trump is expected to take a more free market approach with less regulation when it comes to AI which is good news for startup Founders and might even create a federal crypto Reserve which is good news for Crypt Bros but most importantly he's going to Annex Canada and put Wayne Gretzky in charge historically Tech booms have

been fueled by low interest rates and easy money although going into 2025 the market is anticipating tighter monetary policy and it could take a major market crash before we see significantly lower rates again but the tech industry is really dominated by a few highly productive companies but governments around the world are trying to change that Google became a convicted monopolist and might even lose the Chrome browser in the future but meta is also facing an antitrust lawsuit and they go on trial in 20125 Amazon is also being sued for being a monopoly but realistically these

companies will continue to dominate for the force able future the only way to hurt a big tech company is to stop using its products and there's been a growing anti Cloud movement among many businesses who want to break their addiction to AWS gcp and Azure in some cases it can be significantly cheaper to operate your own virtual private server or if you have the resources host your own physical server on Prem more and more people seem to be waking up and realizing that you don't actually need the cloud to host your crappy website and that

gives us 13 Trends in technology to watch in 2025 no matter what happens whether you get rich get rug pulled to get laid off or get euthanized by super intelligent robots always remember that the real treasure is the friends we made along the way this has been the code report thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one