ML Veteran's Lament: Grifters Got Famous in the LLM Era Without Real Work
A_K_Nain · x · 2026-09-20
An ML practitioner laments that enough grifters became famous during the LLM era without doing actual work, saying that if he could go back in time, he'd learn "how to market yourself" with the same dedication he put into machine learning over the past decade.
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