@Nepiant I would put forth that my issue is less with the pace and more with the direction of advancement. We're not doing anything USEFUL with technology anymore, is what it feels like. The world doesn't need chatbots or a thing to generate another generic web application or better advertising metrics or any of the shit like that.

Maybe, as I type this out, I am being myopic about considering "technology" to be synonymous with "software". Software certainly is making advancements, in speed and efficiency and safety, but we aren't seeing that in the news because all the normies want a chatbot or a "vibe coder" or some other waste of space like that.