Definitely a tough and scary transition. Stay close to revenue.
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Appreciate it man. Being working hard to sharpen my skill sets (particularly in AI) *if* my team actually does get laid off.
That's cool! Any tools in particular you'd recommend for AI literacy to a fellow software engineer?
I’d say the most important thing you can do, if you’re in the position, is use your companies resources. These AI capable machines are expensive, but learning it will benefit you and your company. It’s easy to spin up a VM with GPU in AWS, but it cost a minimum of $3.50 / hour.
I’d recommend trying to learn AI in a platform agonistic way. I.E., instead of using AWS SageMaker, try booting up a basic Ubuntu image and getting that prepared with all the drivers and libraries you would need (PyTorch, Cuda, juypterlab, etc).
I found this method works best for how I learn. I followed this guy to try to get some basic stuff working https://youtu.be/Q9zv369Ggfk?si=dkB6IPrVui6sPKsg. Still so much too learn, it’s crazy. The trick is staying motivated, because it’s difficult.
Wow that video packs a lot of info! Thanks for sharing!