Being in the same boat, I'm waiting for more external feedback and interest, or ideally some customers, before calling it on the day job. Doesn't mean this fits everyone's situation, but just how I'm thinking about it.
I sprinkled some pixie dust and put a bow on mine and 5x'd my revenue. Turns out people love paying a lot of money for something they can do themselves. Now if only I can get my token costs under control...
The willingness to learn and grow is a big one for me. You always have to learn even when highly experienced but starting in a new position or industry. Additionally, critical thinking and problem solving skills along with perseverance makes a strong candidate in my eyes.
These traits show me someone is worth investing in, not just able to do a job. You'd be surprised how rare the combination is too.
These are very hardcore signals deeply buried in individuals work history.
Resumes will never bring this out and so does legacy ATS.
Candidate has to flexibly express his professional journey like a self bio book and then chances are good to extract these signals
That why portfolios or personal websites are better at these. Hiring has to primarily happen via portfolios or personal websites.
I politely ask the LLM to not share sensitive data, pretty please with a cherry on top.
For real though, @oliver_dr 's approach aligns with most best practices I've seen. I have attempted using a separate "agent" to help with the user input validation and identify leakage in the output. It seems to work in testing but hard to truly know how well it works for real-world uses since you never know what you're gonna get.
Agreed, how many forms of cancer or disease have been cured by this AI revolution so far? One example would be nice. I still think it is one of the best forms of information compression the world has ever seen and still see plenty of value, but the primary uses so far seem to be to maximize slop, smut, and ads, which puts us back a square one.
Imagine I had a pill today that absolutely cured cancer. It would take years of clinical trials, testing on animals and humans, exploration of side effects, which cancers it fixes and so on. and so on. And thats before we talk about production at scale and so on.
The AI idea is the really fast part of the cycle, but its a tiny part of the process.
Jaded is an understatement. I'm a data scientist and still like what I do most of the time. I have a decent amount of flexibility and freedom to self-direct my efforts to what I know will help the business best. However, the enterprise BS and 80/20 rule in full force combined with everyone thinking they're an AI expert because they read a few articles is starting to urk me. If I see one more start up that is just an LLM wrapper my head is going to pop.
A little bit of humility goes a long way and separates the good ones from the rest. I hate being referred to as an expert because we're all still learning. Some more than others...
I'm amazed how much these networks charge for things like SMS messaging. You would think it would be cheap and then you realize it is almost 1 penny per message or two. Also, explains why you see so many MVNOs anymore.
Focus on what you can control. Detach from social media. Get outside. Spend time with the people in your life who matter. We live in an information age where we know everything immediately, but it's a blessing and a curse.
Tried that in 2022 before the war broke out. Didn't take long for reality to catch up with me, sitting in a neighbor's cellar hearing missile whooshing past up above.
Even that will pass (for most — for some, it might simply "end" :/). I've been sitting in a cellar and bomb shelters in 1999 myself: yes, your struggle is worse and longer, but it will pass. The information you need today is very limited, so focus on that (what will be hit next; are there potential targets around you at all times, where do you get water/food in case systems break down, etc).
We are all victims of this weirdo game of global, live Risk, and unless you commit yourself to politics, really not much you can do here either: survive and focus on what's next!
You couldn't have prevented the reason why the missiles are flying in the first place though. Of course a realistic sense of alert still helps, but it's lunatics in Russia running the show, not you or anybody else you know.
This is a time and target where "them-ing" is appropriate.
Being in the same boat, I'm waiting for more external feedback and interest, or ideally some customers, before calling it on the day job. Doesn't mean this fits everyone's situation, but just how I'm thinking about it.
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