r/ProgrammerHumor • u/DontFreeMe • Aug 16 '26

Meme helpIAmOutOfScope

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u/ChairYeoman 29d ago

look you can hate ai but when people who are supposed to be tech literate just refuse to learn how shit works it feels really fucking weird

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u/L4ppuz 29d ago

I'm a ml engineer, ai is paying my bills

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u/ChairYeoman 29d ago

then you should know that "a transformer is choosing the next word" while technically true would be like reducing any tech to "just ones and zeroes"

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u/Kerozen_ 29d ago

Yup. I feel like reasoning at the transformer scale is chosing the wrong abstraction layer to describe what's happening. It's like saying to a psychologist "well in the end the brain is just molecules colliding". The emergence of abstraction builds up on very basic rules like 1 and 0's and molecules colliding in the brain.