- mcds ice cream machine is broken - your son is an eth maxi - telling your parents you're dropping out - the look regular tech ppl give you when you say you work in crypto
the most interesting non-AI software engineering problems today are on Solana
everything else is largely a derivate of solved web2 problems
as a result, Solana attracts the brightest engineers
- high-scale, low latency optimizations in an actually decentralized, global, and permissionless setting - multiple concurrent block producers - market structure and txn pipelines + routing - MEV - state of the art network engineering