Future is referring to the title.

Interesting to see not much has changed in 20 years

I still prefer the look of the original iphone OS, but maybe that is just nostalgia. The first iPhone was truly an amazing leap in technology. I don't know how old you are but going from a flip phone to one of these was just incredible.

As a huge Apple fan i hate to say this but $20 iems sound better

There must be some set of outputs that is completely resistant to watermarking. For example if I told Claude to output "Hello, World"

you don't reach cutting edge immediately. you start with the basics

I think the answer then is to get a Phd? I mean, one should learn it to satisfy their curiosity and to build things but I don't think it's going to help you career in any significant way.