LLMs to IT, is like teleporters competing with trucks. Imagine the impact a literal teleporter would have on the logistics and transportation industry.
This is totally tangential, but I've gone through the exercise of trying to imagine what the world would be like if we had actual teleportation, and it would change literally everything. Building with no stairs; cities with no streets; countrysides with no cities or roads; no ports; no planes; no parking lots; no garages. When you start looking around, you realize just how much of the world is designed 1) for some form of transportation, and 2) because proximity matters.
LLMs is clearly on the level of SQL, for the data industry. There's pre-SQL data and post-SQL data, same will be for LLMs.
That being said, it is incredibly exciting to be in data right now. We probably won't be wrangling dashboards anymore, but monitoring, deploying, tuning, feeding AIs. It'll be operationally critical to serve every deal and customer, and data won't be a nice to have, it'll be a must.
I've gone back and forth on if I'm excited for this or not. On the data stuff, I think it seems good. On the rest of the world - like what AI does to all of our brains and personalities - I'm pretty sure we're all doomed.
Love the idea of technological progress as teleportation instead of incremental changes!
LLMs to IT, is like teleporters competing with trucks. Imagine the impact a literal teleporter would have on the logistics and transportation industry.
This is totally tangential, but I've gone through the exercise of trying to imagine what the world would be like if we had actual teleportation, and it would change literally everything. Building with no stairs; cities with no streets; countrysides with no cities or roads; no ports; no planes; no parking lots; no garages. When you start looking around, you realize just how much of the world is designed 1) for some form of transportation, and 2) because proximity matters.
LLMs is clearly on the level of SQL, for the data industry. There's pre-SQL data and post-SQL data, same will be for LLMs.
That being said, it is incredibly exciting to be in data right now. We probably won't be wrangling dashboards anymore, but monitoring, deploying, tuning, feeding AIs. It'll be operationally critical to serve every deal and customer, and data won't be a nice to have, it'll be a must.
I've gone back and forth on if I'm excited for this or not. On the data stuff, I think it seems good. On the rest of the world - like what AI does to all of our brains and personalities - I'm pretty sure we're all doomed.