As I job-hunt, every job listed over the past year has been “AI-drive [something]” and I’m really hoping that trend subsides.
Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Thank fucking god.
I got sick of the overhyped tech bros pumping AI into everything with no understanding of it…
But then I got way more sick of everyone else thinking they’re clowning on AI when in reality they’re just demonstrating an equal sized misunderstanding of the technology in a snarky pessimistic format.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“This is an mid level position requiring at least 7 years experience developing LLMs.” -Every software engineer job out there.
figjam@midwest.social 2 months ago
That was cloud 7 years ago and blockchain 4
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Reminds me of when I read about a programmer getting turned down for a job because they didn’t have 5 years of experience with a language that they themselves had created 1 to 2 years prior.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I’m a data engineer and I get that there’s a lot of potential in analytics with AI, but you don’t need to hire a data engineer with LLM experience for aggregating payroll data.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
there’s a lot of potential in analytics with AI
I’d argue there is a lot of potential in any domain with basic numeracy. In pretty much any business or institution somebody with a spreadsheet might help a lot. That doesn’t necessarily require any Big Data or AI though.
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The tech bros had to find an excuse to use all the GPUs they got for crypto after they bled that dry
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If that’s the reason, I wouldn’t even be mad, that’s recycling right there.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The tech bros had to find an excuse to use all the GPUs they got for crypto after they
bled that dryswitched to proof-of-stake.I’m not a fan of BTC but $50,000+ doesn’t seem very dry to me.
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
No, it’s when people realized it’s a scam
simplejack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m more annoyed that Nvidia is looked at like some sort of brilliant strategist. It’s a GPU company that was lucky enough to be around when two new massive industries found an alternative use for graphics hardware.
They happened to be making pick axes in California right before some prospectors found gold.
And they don’t even really make pick axes, TSMC does. They just design them.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not trivial though. They also managed to lock dev with CUDA.
That being said I don’t think they were “just” lucky, I think they built their luck through practices the DoJ is currently investigating for potential abuse of monopoly.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yeah CUDA, made a lot of this possible.
Once crypto mining was too hard nvidia needed a market beyond image modeling and college machine learning experiments.
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They didn’t just “happen to be around”. They created the entire ecosystem around machine learning while AMD just twiddled their thumbs. There is a reason why no one is buying AMD cards to run AI workloads.
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
One of the reasons being Nvidia forcing unethical vendor lock in through their licensing.
towerful@programming.dev 2 months ago
I feel like for a long time, CUDA was a laser looking for a problem.
It’s just that the current (AI) problem might solve expensive employment issues.
It’s just that C-Suite/managers are pointing that laser at the creatives instead of the jobs whose task it is to accumulate easily digestible facts and produce a set of instructions. You know, like C-Suites and middle/upper managers do.
And NVidia have pushed CUDA so hard.
AMD have ROCM, an open source cuda equivalent for amd.
But it’s kinda like Linux Vs windows. NVidia CUDA is just so damn prevalent.
I guess it was first. Cuda has wider compatibility with Nvidia cards than rocm with AMD cards.
The only way AMD can win is to show a performance boost for a power reduction and cheaper hardware. So many people are entrenched in NVidia, the cost to switching to rocm/amd is a huge gamble
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Go ahead and design a better pickaxe than them, we’ll wait…
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“He didn’t earn his wealth. He just won the lottery.” “If it’s so easy, YOU go ahead and win the lottery then.”
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
My fucking god.
“Buying a lottery ticket, and designing the best GPUs” totally the same thing, amiriteguys???"
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Imo we should give credit where credit is due and I agree, not a genius, still my pick is a 4080 for a new gaming computer.