exactly right. POCs and demos are easy to build by anyone these days. The last 10% is what separates student projects from real products. any engineer who has spent time in the trenches understands that fixing corner…
I got laid off thrice during my 25+ year career during which i have worked at 9 different companies. twice from startups in each of the previous busts and once from a large company. job hunts are not easy and i dont…
sucks... after the dot-com bust, i took a job that involved a 70 mile commute (each way) which was about 100 minutes on the road on average each way. At the time, i thought that was the only option for me. turns out it…
not sure i agree, i went to school in the 90's as well, and out of 9 jobs I have held since, 4 came through cold-applications and 5 through referrals. referrals imo have a better chance of success particularly if you…
I will have to disagree with the author on specifics (but agree on the broad premise) it is not what the foundational knowledge "is" - but "how" the foundational knowledge is "unpacked" by each person from the first…
thanks for this comment ! it clarifies the function of the llm well. ie, use it as a template-generating search-engine helper for most common things. for uncommon things, you have to prompt-guide it to get what you want.
I would have liked to see a giant ppt of an agentic framework or architecture. Call it Enterprise Agentic Framework or something like that. The architecture diagram would fill an entire ppt slide and bedazzle its…
every hype cycle runs through a predictable course. we are at a phase where the early adopters have seen the writing on the wall.. ie that llms are useful for a limited set of usecases. but there are lots of late…
you are quoting the party-line. i am saying, the thing is snake-oil - a solution looking for a problem.
whats hilarious in this farce is how these are being rebranded from "co-pilots" to "agents" just goes to show, it is all a big song-and-dance. much ado about nothing.
Mgmt at every company is asked - what are you doing to be agentic ? so, they organize hackathons where devs build a hypothetical agentic framework nobody will dare use. So, mgmt can claim, look here what i have done to…
exactly right. POCs and demos are easy to build by anyone these days. The last 10% is what separates student projects from real products. any engineer who has spent time in the trenches understands that fixing corner…
I got laid off thrice during my 25+ year career during which i have worked at 9 different companies. twice from startups in each of the previous busts and once from a large company. job hunts are not easy and i dont…
sucks... after the dot-com bust, i took a job that involved a 70 mile commute (each way) which was about 100 minutes on the road on average each way. At the time, i thought that was the only option for me. turns out it…
not sure i agree, i went to school in the 90's as well, and out of 9 jobs I have held since, 4 came through cold-applications and 5 through referrals. referrals imo have a better chance of success particularly if you…
I will have to disagree with the author on specifics (but agree on the broad premise) it is not what the foundational knowledge "is" - but "how" the foundational knowledge is "unpacked" by each person from the first…
thanks for this comment ! it clarifies the function of the llm well. ie, use it as a template-generating search-engine helper for most common things. for uncommon things, you have to prompt-guide it to get what you want.
I would have liked to see a giant ppt of an agentic framework or architecture. Call it Enterprise Agentic Framework or something like that. The architecture diagram would fill an entire ppt slide and bedazzle its…
every hype cycle runs through a predictable course. we are at a phase where the early adopters have seen the writing on the wall.. ie that llms are useful for a limited set of usecases. but there are lots of late…
you are quoting the party-line. i am saying, the thing is snake-oil - a solution looking for a problem.
whats hilarious in this farce is how these are being rebranded from "co-pilots" to "agents" just goes to show, it is all a big song-and-dance. much ado about nothing.
Mgmt at every company is asked - what are you doing to be agentic ? so, they organize hackathons where devs build a hypothetical agentic framework nobody will dare use. So, mgmt can claim, look here what i have done to…