SWE team or AI Research team? /u/CatNip-ples CSCQ protests reddit

I am currently working in a non technical role but I’ve graduated with a cs degree. I’ve proven myself to be capable enough to do small things where I’ve been given the opportunity to join as part of a SWE team or an AI research team.

My eng skills aren’t great – I’m fairly proficient in python and beginner in JavaScript. I want to work with LLMs but I have either choice of joining the SWE team (prompting, scaling backend systems) or the AI team (handling long context windows, rate limits, training models). I’m a bit torn as I’m quite interested in both and I’m aware the market for both roles is very different. Which would be better? (Background: I have background in medicine and both teams would benefit from this)

I am currently working in a non technical role but I’ve graduated with a cs degree. I’ve proven myself to be capable enough to do small things where I’ve been given the opportunity to join as part of a SWE team or an AI research team.

My eng skills aren’t great – I’m fairly proficient in python and beginner in JavaScript. I want to work with LLMs but I have either choice of joining the SWE team (prompting, scaling backend systems) or the AI team (handling long context windows, rate limits, training models). I’m a bit torn as I’m quite interested in both and I’m aware the market for both roles is very different. Which would be better? (Background: I have background in medicine and both teams would benefit from this)