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I finished studies about a year ago. my two best friends are both grinding corporate (one of them currently switching to big tech and grinding leetcode, my other friend working 80-90 hour work weeks in private equity). i got a job offer in tech after pivoting from math, and turned it down. ive stopped recruiting two months ago. i have no interest in working corporate. i dont want to work for big tech. i don't want to work for an llm-wrapper startup. i like being creative—i'd want to work for a creative/generative ai company, but need to build a portfolio. idk. atp i feel completely disconnected from normal society. today i thought about moving to japan and becoming a sushi chef (i had some previous experience and am half japanese) while working on side projects that interest me. i can't stand performative culture, and im uncertain that it is escapable.

>>92681 Performative culture is only escapable when you have enough money. I got a business tech degree and now I'm starting an online web business for myself that I am passionate about, since every option is soykaft. I kind of want to get a low key IT job where nobody really cares and just work on my business on the side then have my online business explode and retire and do whatever I want.

>>92681 >i don't want to work for an llm-wrapper startup. >i'd want to work for a creative/generative ai company Isn't this the same thing though?

>>92715 no there's a lot of companies that are working on taking llms (large language models) made by other groups and prompting/building stuff around them to make them useful for X or Y application. Although its still ai industry this is very different from anything related to actually training models or other such things. also your pic...literally me

>>92715 No contradiction. Ai is the most creative field of all. Down the line. In a few years. I have no doubts. He just wants to be at the forefront of that.

>>92720 >AI is the most creative field >down the line >in a few years >i have no doubts you sure about that lain?

>>92730 Yes, frankly. I know ais are, currently, no more than reflectors of human patters. They summarize my words really quite beatifully, in think-hard modes; and it is hard to throw them a concept they do not get; their resistance is more "yes, but [popular misconception reiterated]". I know they are not creative yet. I have long avoided programming, which I have begun to hate, but today I talked a script. A searcher over text in vein of fzf, filtering a set of units via classifiers. It followed everything perfectly. But I was the creative party. Across a couple messages, I came up with * filtrer stacks (filtering already-filtered sets) * expressed as sedlike chains of slashes (keyword1/nestedone/yetanotherlayer) * replacability of the value of the filter at any one level without erasing above / below levels (swapping); * "axes" of filter affect, e.g. a filter value namespace prefix may correspond to "all X belonging to Y such that ANY of its X has property Z", etc. * generalization of my filters to Xpath / Xquery syntax Those were not creative ideas as such, no. Trivial, of course. But my point is, ai will come up with them. Even though didn't yet. I know my brain is statistical. "Are we ai?" Yes.

>>92737 Ah, you say they are already. I am very stupid. Never mind. Say, share what you think was a creative insight by ai. As far, it seems to be more computations than breakthroughs. But I'll be happy to hear.