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> LLM developer This is the first time I heard this term, and when I Google search "LLM developer" in an incognito tab, different device, this article is one o
by cornfutes 3y ago
> LLM developer
This is the first time I heard this term, and when I Google search "LLM developer" in an incognito tab, different device, this article is one of the first results.
Seems like we should first establish what exactly is an LLM developer.
> When I was at Google, there was a document put together by Jeff Dean, the legendary engineer, called Numbers every Engineer should know.
The personal plug and appeal to authority of "When I was a Google" is unnecessary. "Numbers every Engineer should know" is public and literally linked there. It's a weird way to start a engineering blog post and makes it feel like marketing of one's resume. Then again, I guess that's what most of these engineering blog posts are nowadays.
Indeed Jeff Dean is a legend and needing to add the "legendary engineer" qualifier detracts from this point. Let these things speak for themselves.
- mrtranscendence 3y agoI think you're being somewhat uncharitable here. There's nothing wrong with adding a personal detail here or there, and nothing wrong with giving credit to those who deserve it. I don't see any reason to bikeshed the short, inessential details included in the blogger's prose.
- vidarh 3y agoThe term "LLM developer" is clear enough from context.
- bsaul 3y agoI’m still not sure if the advices apply to people developing LLM models, or to software developers using LLM in their daily job to produce code.
- vidarh 3y agoMost of this applies to people developing applications that depends on LLMs. Some of it also applies to people using LLMs for other purposes. Very little of it is applicable to someone developing LLMs.