"I Hand-Derived BatchNorm Backprop": Engineers Joke About Ancient AI Frameworks
HanchungLee · x · 2026-10-23
An engineer quips that new-grad interviewers will soon meet candidates who've never heard of TensorFlow, after having to explain what Caffe2 was to a junior teammate. The attached meme — an elderly woman saying "I used to backprop BatchNorm by hand" met with "Sure grandma, let's get you to bed" — captures how quickly deep learning frameworks have aged, from Caffe2 and TensorFlow to the PyTorch era.
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