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Everyone here is saying that people can simply transition easily into startups and other big companies. To a certain extent that's true, but what exactly are th
by epups 4y ago
Everyone here is saying that people can simply transition easily into startups and other big companies. To a certain extent that's true, but what exactly are they going to do? As technology consolidates into one or two major LLM's, likely only accessible by API, I feel most orgs would be better served by relying heavily on finetuning or optimizing those for their purpose. Previous experience with NLP certainly helps with that, although this type of work would not necessarily be as exciting as trying to build the next big thing, which everyone was scrambling for before.
OpenAI could build a state-of-the-art tool with a few hundred developers - to me, that means that money will converge to them and other big orgs rather than the opposite.
- Yoric 4y agoThat's definitely a risk. With a PhD in the domain, I consider myself pretty good at (a subset of) distributed programming. But these days, when companies hire for distributed programming, they seem to want developers who know a specific set of tools and APIs. I'm more suited at reimplementing them for scratch.