• Batman@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It can suck to work in AI research. Worked in it for 6 years and quit 2 months ago to couch surf at my parents.

    Your labor gets sold as a commodity, so your customer expects you to be hot shit, but to everyone in your department you’re just gluing models together like a kindergarten student and they treat you like it.

    • PolarKraken@programming.dev
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      1 month ago

      Really feeling like unions are overdue. People really undervalue and underestimate what it takes to be good or even just competent at this stuff.