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Machine learning/LLM actually was around 10 years ago, it just didn't have the farcical "AI" moniker.
Yeah.
The groundbreaking "Attention Is All You Need" paper, in which transformer architecture was proposed, was published 9 years ago. It was obviously part of a much longer running conversation around how to use linear algebra to find machine learning applications. If you're looking for someone who understands the underlying math and processes at a lower level, this isn't an unreasonable ask.
It is, however, an unreasonable ask of someone for a "prompt engineer" job though.
Ironically, I have literally implemented backpropagation from scratch like three separate times at this point (once before the famous CUDA impl) but I'd probably fail this interview for not knowing enough of the current agentic meta.
It's ok though the people working the job rec (and lonely the people giving the interview) probably have zero clue what back propagation is
It's a way to technically remain a virgin in the eyes of The Lord.
Well, actually, we've had the tech since the 80s
How many people working on that >9 years ago are applying for positions like this, though?
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