[ankit219]

Somewhat related to the article, but mostly anecdotal. In SF, i have had chats with (~15) engineers who after some prodding admitted that they feel the whole AGI thing is passing them by (not that it is close). In a sense that they want to be doing something deeper, build/research something which is more than an API call (paraphrasing and not disparaging making API calls), and want to build where the action is (read: train models or be at the forefront). I understand you need a specific skillset to be in that position, just that it's slightly off putting that to do any meaningful work in this field you need a lot of compute. I understand they raised funding and what not, yet want something more than they are working on. I am not sure of the solution, but the cause sure seems to be the hype that is created currently.