pm_me_your_pay_slips t1_j488487 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 9:07 PM

Reply to comment by psychorameses in [D] Bitter lesson 2.0? by Tea_Pearce

Except one software engineer + a foundation model for code generation may be able to replace 10 engineers. I'm taking that ratio out of my ass, but it might as well be that one engineer + foundation model replaces 5 or 100. Do you count yourself as that one in X engineers that won't lose their job in Y years?

psychorameses t1_j48la7w wrote on January 13, 2023 at 10:31 PM

For now, yeah. I'm the guy building their fancy hodgepodge theoretical linear algebra functions into efficient PyTorch backend code so it can actually do something. And the CI/CD pipelines, the serving systems and all of that. You could even say I'm contributing to the demise of those 10 engineers. Especially all the Javascript bootcamp CRUD engineers flooding NPM with god-knows-what these days.

Gotta back the winning side, not fight them. If foundation models get replaced by something else, I'll go build software for those guys and gals too.