There is no in between.
For context I am a senior computer engineering student. I did some internships and talked with many people from big companies. And the thing I realized is I can’t avoid AI anymore.
It’s physically impossible. I resisted for years but every single fucking place is forcing it nowadays. Internships, jobs, any competitions and even my damn professors at uni.
I have yet to meet a single person in real life that does not use AI extensively. No one cares. No one thinks it might be wrong to fuck up so many things for so little (sometimes none) gain.
So I’m at a loss nowadays. I have zero motivation to do anything. I applied for masters but who can guarantee it will be any different? I will either have to use AI like any slop-coder out there or just starve. Even though I’m a hardware guy. I dont even want to think about software devs.
Fuck every single tech CEO. Fuck every single capitalist. So many people complained about the previous generation because of what they left us. But what are we doing now? Are we any better?
Sorry for unorganized and sloppy writing. Just had to dump this somewhere. Have a nice day everyone.
It’s not always going to be like this. I genuinely think the AI bubble is going to pop and the whole way AI is viewed will change.
I was there for the dotcom bubble. When it popped the Internet didn’t go away, it just settled into the tool it was designed to be.
LLMs won’t be uninvented… they’ll just become tools.
The hyperscale bullshit will fail when the bubble pops. The only way those models can continue is with unlimited free money. Unless the government steps in to run the data centers (and it might) they’re all going to collapse.
But, local open models will keep getting use as tools long after the hyperscalers are done.
Expensive, highly specialized, and sparingly used tools due to needing to reflect their actual cost