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It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

ramon156 wrote: post #11
deoxykev wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious to hear what kind of work you do. Because there are definitely fields where productivity as 10x'd because of AI tools.

Seriously? 10x? Either those were cushion jobs or you oversold your claim

Some jobs it's more.

I had to sign a 140 page contract of foreign language legalese. Mostly boiler plate, but I had specific questions about it.

Asking questions to an AI to get the specific page answering it meant I could do the job in 2 hours. Without an AI, it would have taken me 2 days.

For programming, it's very good at creating boilerplate, tests, docs, generic API endpoints, script argument parsing, script one-liners, etc. Basically anything for which, me, as a human, don't have much added value.

It's much faster to generate imperfect things with AI and fix them that to write them myself when there is a lot of volume.

It's also pretty good at fixing typos, translating, giving word definition, and so on. Meaning if you are already in the chat, no need to switch to a dedicated tool.

I don't personally get 10x on average (although on specific well suited task I can) but I can get a good X3 on a regular basis.

Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Post by qoez »

lowsong wrote: post #3

Nearly two years on from this article's publication, 'AI' tools are still as useless as ever for productive work.

Chatgpt is really good at small throwaway scripts to accomplish some task that could have taken a good portion of the day to write up otherwise (almost always gets the code right on first try)

Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Post by j4nek »

deoxykev wrote: post #4
lowsong wrote: post #3

Nearly two years on from this article's publication, 'AI' tools are still as useless as ever for productive work.

Curious to hear what kind of work you do. Because there are definitely fields where productivity as 10x'd because of AI tools.

being 10x more productivie with ai doesn`t mean that someone is now a full engineer. ^^

Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Post by tempodox »

deoxykev wrote: post #4
lowsong wrote: post #3

Nearly two years on from this article's publication, 'AI' tools are still as useless as ever for productive work.

Curious to hear what kind of work you do. Because there are definitely fields where productivity as 10x'd because of AI tools.

This whole area is so drenched in bullshit, it's no wonder that the generation of BS and fluff is still the most productive use. Just nothing where reliable facts matter. I do believe that machines can vomit crap 10x as fast as humans.

Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Post by OtherShrezzing »

lowsong wrote: post #3

Nearly two years on from this article's publication, 'AI' tools are still as useless as ever for productive work.

In the time since this publication, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to an ML Engineer & AI researcher.

While it's accurate that there's a lot of AI slop out there, it's also a reasonable assertion that working at the frontier of AI & ML research can be a worthwhile use of your life.

Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Post by reedf1 »

petesergeant wrote: post #15
badgersnake wrote: post #10

Did you used to be a blockchain engineer?

You can find out a little more about Greg's background here: https://gregbrockman.com/ Rather than a crypto-guy, he used to be the CTO of Stripe, who were moderately successful.

And as we know, success in one area is never a source of overconfidence in another.

Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Post by echoangle »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #21
ramon156 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously? 10x? Either those were cushion jobs or you oversold your claim

Some jobs it's more. I had to sign a 140 page contract of foreign language legalese. Mostly boiler plate, but I had specific questions about it. Asking questions to an AI to get the specific page answering it meant I could do the job in 2 hours. Without an AI, it would have taken me 2 days. For programming, it's very good at creating boilerplate, tests, docs, generic API endpoints, script argument parsing, script one…

But what you're doing isn't a real job. Who hands someone who doesn't speakt the language a contract to sign? Don't you have a legal department that does this job for you and has people that are specialists for that?

Also, what are you going to do if the AI answered inaccurately and you signed a contract that says something different then what you thought?

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