Viral quip: you'll never be jobless if you master inference engineering — but you need to be jobless to master it
PeterBowdenLive · x · 2026-09-27
A quote from @avrldotdev is making the rounds: "You'll never be unemployed if you master inference engineering, but you need to be unemployed to master inference engineering."
Reposters add that mastering the future often requires getting kicked out of the present for a bit—a wry take on how the deepest skills are often learned in career gaps.
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