I'm in a big tech company working along side a science team for a product you've all probably used. We have these year long initiatives to productionalize "state of the art NLP models" that are now completely obsolete in the face of GPT-4. I think at first the science orgs were quiet/in denial. But now…
Some days I think that I just want to basically check out of technology on a day to day basis and either develop a skill I have or learn a new one and work maybe part or full-time doing something totally different. Something totally unrelated to sitting in front of a computer.Thanks to tech I…
Typical story I imagine-- ambitious, smart, promising career, was a technical co-founder at a small startup, and things seemed fine. Then I found myself wandering in the woods all day, crying for no reason and looking for non-existent fossils, which I found. I eventually saw petrified sea creatures everywhere and stopped going to work, or…
I have spent the last 10 years working for FAANG companies, but nowadays I find their performance-review and promotion obsessed cultures to be really draining. Worse, those negative feelings seem to be leaking into my personal life and slowly alienating friends and family.Therefore, I've been pondering a change of pace. The classic HN answer is…
