I think the gap between 'should' and [short-lived] reality is the point - that's obviously the reasonable setup, but pickle happened.
In the quest of being first or whatever, amateur rediscoveries are happening. Consistently.
I'm making a disgusting amount of money in the field by doing day-one packaging work any commodity project would also be doing. They just wouldn't decide to redefine things in a clearly worse way.
I don't actually know jack about AI, yet here we are. The hype/gold rush is real; competence in the shared fundamentals can go a long way.
The trick is knowing/applying the basics for the wizards. There's a steep premium so they can play around, apparently.
Case in point: most of these humongous container images and how they're naively moved around
Now that more people know how to publish (containers/packages/articles), we're seeing more drivel published. It's ridiculous yet inevitable. I just wonder how much value the rush provides.
IIRC 'safetensors' aren't necessarily even that safe. I could have sworn I read they're fairly nebulous. Grain of salt etc
no such exploits have been publicised against known safetensors, so I'd need more than an unqualified Internet rumor to consider them unsafe. Not saying it's not possible but the entire point of them is that they're a blob of numbers, and not a known exploitable bit of python.
How're you making money? is it a contracting via network thing or can anybody apply?
I tried to explain that it's nothing more than a rumor. I wrapped that in poor recollection as much as I could. Three absolving statements for the one!
Did you, somehow, feel I was trying to convince? I'm fishing for education.
I'm making my money doing 'SRE', which really, amounts to doing housekeeping for the AI people.
Anyone can apply. What are you insinuating? Say it. My situation (other than comp) isn't special, they generally need help.
I don't really need to know about what they're running to keep the systems online and running well. Another day, different workload.
I may bother to learn a thing or two about it... but it's not a requirement. At all. Same toys all the way down. It's shiny old news at this level.
I don't mean to belittle it. It's jazzy stuff. I just build the boring parts - OS, VLANs, etc.
My 'ire'/elbowing is that 'they' (the AI folks), almost pathologically, refuse to engage with the basics like Python packaging. It's with love, honestly.
(imo) Could've said safetensors are secure, and wait for Poe's law to kick in, or just not said anything.
Apologies if it came across that I'm insinuating some sort of thing, it's just I've some friends looking for that type of work. My email's on my profile.
In a gold rush go to those who make the shovels. I can't control demand, so supply it is
I follow trends. Web hosting, cloud, now AI. It started out as, 'I want a discount for the things I can't afford'. I had an interest then found the work.
That's as close to doxing myself as I'm willing to get. Sorry for the riddles. I may reach out when things calm down personally. Work is about all I have that's right, right now.
These AI people all want their own clouds. The clouds want to be AI. What's old is new again.
This dynamic is where I exist. Point at one the companies that makes things, you're probably in the right direction. There's maybe a dozen worth attention
Following Linux and company into new areas. It's that simple; building blocks get reused
I realized this immediately and have been consistent about it over my career. That's at least part of the compensation. We aren't gluing Lego bricks, y'know
In the quest of being first or whatever, amateur rediscoveries are happening. Consistently.
I'm making a disgusting amount of money in the field by doing day-one packaging work any commodity project would also be doing. They just wouldn't decide to redefine things in a clearly worse way.
I don't actually know jack about AI, yet here we are. The hype/gold rush is real; competence in the shared fundamentals can go a long way.
The trick is knowing/applying the basics for the wizards. There's a steep premium so they can play around, apparently.
Case in point: most of these humongous container images and how they're naively moved around
Now that more people know how to publish (containers/packages/articles), we're seeing more drivel published. It's ridiculous yet inevitable. I just wonder how much value the rush provides.
IIRC 'safetensors' aren't necessarily even that safe. I could have sworn I read they're fairly nebulous. Grain of salt etc