I have 4.5 years of experience, but I am in the same situation as you. To be honest, I think I am in an even worse position. I do not sleep properly. Day in and day out, I keep asking myself What is the frontier work I want to do? What is the one field I truly want to enter and say, “This is where I want to work for the next 30 years of my life,” and fully commit to it?
Thinking about this has become an endless source of misery for me. Still, every day I take on some challenging work and start working on it, whether it interests me or not. If it does not, I switch. If the next thing does not work, I try harder again.
I have also started talking to more people and trying to find a group of highly ambitious people. One thing I have noticed about people who have succeeded is that they nailed two things. First, they found a direction. Second, they found an ambitious group that acted as an engine for them.
I really don't understand the point of doing this certificates seriously for what joy. i literally figured out lot of things through chatgpt deployed and scalled services. I am like its that easy. you just have practice it few times thats it.
It all starter from With the law in US (which was reverted) that you couldn't use all software research as expense so you needed to pay tax on no-profit. Then you cannat hire people remotly if you do that you will loose tax benefits and stuff. then ai picked up . basically we are screwed
One part I think people may find interesting is the media pipeline. It explains how audio flows through the system, how frames are created, why click sounds happen, and how buffering, pacing, and the jitter buffer handle audio that arrives at irregular intervals.
I also open sourced the project. There are some interesting infrastructure issues in the repo that might be worth a look.