I spent the past decade working my ass transitioning into tech (was in economics before), learning to program, took a bunch of classes on AI/ML, and had 2 stints as SDE/MLE at the MAANG’s in the last 5 years.
Before I was in tech and in the early days of being in tech, I loved programming. I thought OOP was the coolest thing, abstractions, modeling things, making tools and seeing other people’s amazement when using them. Then when I moved onto AI/ML, the idea of having numbers implicitly capturing the real-world also fascinated me, classification and forecasting seem magic, and getting them to work in the industry also feels magical.
Fast forward to today, everything is “AI” (but in reality people mean LLM) this, bottom line that, where is the impacccc, what are the KPIs. And maybe this is just big tech – everything coming out feels like it’s coming out of someone’s asshole! Everything is constantly on fire because of this culture of moving fast and delivering results **now**, without giving any thoughts on side effects or long-term consideration. The stupidest of it all, seeing people constantly sacrificing their health/family/sanity fighting for scope/to work faster/harder to make more money for daddy Bezos/Zuck/Musk/etc.
Yeah, the pay is cushy. But at the same time it also feels so soul crushing. So, am I a wimp, or does tech suck?
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r/cscareerquestions I spent the past decade working my ass transitioning into tech (was in economics before), learning to program, took a bunch of classes on AI/ML, and had 2 stints as SDE/MLE at the MAANG’s in the last 5 years. Before I was in tech and in the early days of being in tech, I loved programming. I thought OOP was the coolest thing, abstractions, modeling things, making tools and seeing other people’s amazement when using them. Then when I moved onto AI/ML, the idea of having numbers implicitly capturing the real-world also fascinated me, classification and forecasting seem magic, and getting them to work in the industry also feels magical. Fast forward to today, everything is “AI” (but in reality people mean LLM) this, bottom line that, where is the impacccc, what are the KPIs. And maybe this is just big tech – everything coming out feels like it’s coming out of someone’s asshole! Everything is constantly on fire because of this culture of moving fast and delivering results **now**, without giving any thoughts on side effects or long-term consideration. The stupidest of it all, seeing people constantly sacrificing their health/family/sanity fighting for scope/to work faster/harder to make more money for daddy Bezos/Zuck/Musk/etc. Yeah, the pay is cushy. But at the same time it also feels so soul crushing. So, am I a wimp, or does tech suck? submitted by /u/strix202 [link] [comments]
I spent the past decade working my ass transitioning into tech (was in economics before), learning to program, took a bunch of classes on AI/ML, and had 2 stints as SDE/MLE at the MAANG’s in the last 5 years.
Before I was in tech and in the early days of being in tech, I loved programming. I thought OOP was the coolest thing, abstractions, modeling things, making tools and seeing other people’s amazement when using them. Then when I moved onto AI/ML, the idea of having numbers implicitly capturing the real-world also fascinated me, classification and forecasting seem magic, and getting them to work in the industry also feels magical.
Fast forward to today, everything is “AI” (but in reality people mean LLM) this, bottom line that, where is the impacccc, what are the KPIs. And maybe this is just big tech – everything coming out feels like it’s coming out of someone’s asshole! Everything is constantly on fire because of this culture of moving fast and delivering results **now**, without giving any thoughts on side effects or long-term consideration. The stupidest of it all, seeing people constantly sacrificing their health/family/sanity fighting for scope/to work faster/harder to make more money for daddy Bezos/Zuck/Musk/etc.
Yeah, the pay is cushy. But at the same time it also feels so soul crushing. So, am I a wimp, or does tech suck?
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