After already introducing a measurement standard for compression and giving us a mathematical treatise on mass stimulation, the show Silicon Valley can already be considered as productively prolific, in addition to being hilariously comedic. Obviously, the show is capable of giving us so much more, and we should challenge them to surpass their own past achievements. So, I think I speak for all of us when I say that we expect at least one of the following challenges to be met by the end of the second season:

1. To create the general specifications for the firmware of a “companion” robot being built by Jian, that will possess both the AI needed to pass the Lovelace test and the kinematic equations needed to pass the Linda Lovelace test.
2. To prototype the first online bartering system and bartering message protocol, which Erlich will build for use in his new (and legal) business project WeedNeed (where people will exchange old mobile phones for drone-delivered marijuana).
3. To develop (and then open source) a script utility that will allow you to create a customized set of VRF tables and DNS entries, which Gilfoyle will then use to create and traceroute a poem about how much Dinesh is gay for his code.
4. To invent an accepted scoring system for the static code analysis of Java (probably by Dinesh), in which a minimum score of 90 will get you one free turn with Jian’s new “companion” robot.
5. To create a simple package for script kiddies that exploits CVE-2014-6271, which Gilfoyle uses to replace the home page for JQuery with a picture of monkeys masturbating.

6. To roughly outline a new method for software development called The Starving Startup, in which different planning stages of the business are devised at different levels of hunger and isolation of the designers. (Jared had an epiphany for this idea during his latest sabbatical.)
7. To create an accurate measurement standard for image recognition, that will benchmark Hooli’s new IR system as it attempts to censor the Mad Bomber (who photobombs popular restaurant cams with his penis in hot dog buns).

Peter Bolton is the author of Blowing the Bridge: A Software Story and has also been known to be a grumpy bastard on occasion.