Watch out for hypes in ICT

Hypes

 ICT has a rich history of hypes where people thought that this would be a panacea for all problems. These hypes lasted for some time like paradigms in Karl Popper's science philosophy. From the top of my head we had the following hypes in the past:

• relational / SQL databases (70's)
• structural design
• object oriented design (80's)
• component based development (90's)
• design patterns (1995)
• scrum / agile (2001)
• AI (2022)

 All these hypes (except scrum) were useful but not to the extend of solving all problems. They are now part of the current solution domain. We also know now that these are still problems to tackle. Let's see what AI will bring us in the future. For now it's on the level of coding assist but not on the level of designing whole systems. In that part it still cannot replace programmers (besides that it makes mistakes).