I Was Wrong

You actually are the star of the show

It was all good until the Silicon Valley legend Paul Graham dropped the tweet below.

We'll talk more about the tweet later, but first, let's address the elephant in the room…Why I was wrong.

A Seat At The Table

The naivety of youth is glorious.

Over three years ago, I put together an opinion piece outlining why Machine Learning practitioners such as Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers were "not the stars of the show" but enablers of the true star of the show. AI.

The 'show' in the statement of the article is the central stage, which is the AI industry, in the commercial and business sense. However, developments over the last two years have shifted my perspective on my previous opinions.

Perhaps yours as well?

In this long or short article — we have to see how it goes — I address perspectives I held three years ago and how they've changed and developed since the advent of LLMs (Large Language Models).

Today, LLMs are integrated into a number of commercial products; this has fueled the popularisation of GenAI (Generative…