u/frenchydev1 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Ahh yes, everyone has a reason for their narrative, makes sense why you're anti-some bootcamp then. It'll be interesting to see what they teach. Whether it's an attempt at the glamorous side of understanding/building LLMs or the practical side of how to incorporate LLMs into prod
u/michaelnovati replied ·
So I would argue that I'm investing in an team member to 'learn LLMs' is currently not a no trainer and depends highly on the team and their goals and that's why companies aren't trying to hire for these skills yet.
LLMs are powerful but generative AI is a specific type of AI that can be used to improve a lot of user facing product.
There is still a tremendous need for ML adjacent skills for non generative AI that is far more critical to current companies.
The advertising engines that run Google and Meta are not generative.
Google IO just talked about dozens of new generative AI products and features and didn't talk much about ads at all!
AI will help customers build better ads, faster and more interesting ads, more dynamic ads, etc... and the people that work on that are product people.
And those product people aren't going to be hired because they spent 6 months learning about RAG, fine tuning, and using the Chat GPT API. They will be hired because they have experience building complex products
Anyone can learn AI skills online, but it takes experience working on complex products at tech companies to get irreplaceable product skills.