Considering the author is explicitly going into AI research, has an AI-generated profile picture, and claims front-and-centre on their website they are excited about LLMs, I don’t think that analogy works. Or rather, it is like a knitter throwing away their needles to eagerly go work in the loom manufacturing industry.

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rikafurude21 4 days ago | parent [-]

I dont think many people would be excited at the thought of going from handcrafted artisan knitting to babying machines in the knitting factory. You need a certain type of autism to be into the latter.

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dewey 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

The author is a student at a university. There's many paths to take that early in the career, I don't think people have to read too much into it.

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roenxi 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fortunately this is the software industry. We've got a lot of those autists and that automating urge is the best part about software. If someone don't like the idea of sitting around babysitting factories of machines they certainly shouldn't go into DevOps. It would be safest to just avoid programming in general, given how much of the industry centres on figuring out how to deploy huge amounts of computing power in an autonomous fashion.

	▲	andai 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, the whole industry is just speedrunning Factorio at this point.

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stoneyhrm1 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd think it would be more autistic to continue to use and have interest in something that's been superseded by something far more easier and efficient.

Who would you think is weirder, the person still obsessed with horse & buggies, or the person obsessed with cars?