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I'm from the ML platforms and systems domain. I strongly recommend it if one's able. It's a bit more stable than a quickly evolving ML/DL/AI ecosystem or front
by golly_ned 4mo ago
I'm from the ML platforms and systems domain.
I strongly recommend it if one's able. It's a bit more stable than a quickly evolving ML/DL/AI ecosystem or frontend ecosystem. The skills are more durable. It repays deep investment and knowledge.
It allows you to straddle both the distributed systems and services domain and the ML domain.
ML systems problems are extremely interesting since they require extremes of compute, storage, network, and latency, in very different parts of the model lifecycle. Its unique problem is the scarcity and cost of hardware accelerators.
I've worked eleven years in the space and rarely have had the desire to leave.
- mathisfun123 4mo ago> rarely have had the desire to leave. I'm currently a GPU compiler engineer in FAANG specializing in compute (not graphics). So clearly ML systems. Prior I have worked at every level of stack above and during my PhD I worked below (RTL). I hate it and think about leaving every day (I stay because of the money and like wtf else am I gonna do lol).
- saagarjha 4mo agoAre you willing to take a pay cut?
- mathisfun123 4mo agoNo? Why would I? Like to what end?
- saagarjha 4mo ago> I hate it and think about leaving every day
- mathisfun123 4mo agomost people hate their jobs; some people are just lucky enough that their jobs compensate them well enough for the emotional labor as well as the physical labor. also i have worked other SWE jobs (as already mentioned) and i've hated them all.
- saagarjha 4mo agoYou can also not hate your job and be paid fairly well for it
- mathisfun123 4mo agoDidn't I just tell you that I've hated every swe job I've had? Are you proposing I become a baker or what?
- saagarjha 4mo agoWould being a baker make you happy? Because this conversation makes me feel like you are one of those guys who is like "if I was a baker I will join the permanent underclass which means I cannot be happy doing that either"
- mathisfun123 4mo agoI don't understand why you're asking these questions at all - my happiness is not the subject here? Throughout I'm merely maintaining that swe sucks no matter where you go despite people thinking the grass is somehow greener in ML.
- saagarjha 4mo agoI mean, it sucks for you. Definitely does not for everyone else