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by CharlesW 1 hour ago
I didn't write this or submit the link, but in case a bit of context helps folks like @OutOfHere: This is an edited transcript of a keynote the author gave at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA in April 2026. It's sort of a meditation on the state of machine learning engineering.

"And so the question I had, was that, if you have all these people painting flowers, why is it important to paint good flowers? Why do you want to stand out?

"And the same question of, in a world where it’s easy and fast to write code, why is technical excellence still important?"