That dude is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, doesn't need your "resume driven" label, his resume is good enough already.
Why don't you accept it as, dude is experimenting and learning new tool, how cool is that, if this is possible, what else can I build with these tools?
May be not resume driven. But hearing MS and AI, I can't help but wonder if this is result of one of those mandates by "leadership" where everyone is forced to come up with a AI use case or hack.
isn't this is exactly the point of innovation and mandates?
"leadership" or real leaders, want people to experiment a lot, so some of them will come up with novel ideas and either decide to build it on their own and get rich or build internally and make company rich.
Not always, but in many cases when someone becomes rich with innovation, it is probably because there was a benefit to a society (excluding gambling, porn, social media addictions)
The pressure at those levels is even higher, as it is an unsaid expectation of sorts that LLMs represent the cutting edge of technology, so principals/DEs must use it to show that they're on the top of the game.
No idea if this is true but very sad if it is. This is a great argument for the concept of tenure, so experts can work on what they as experts deem important instead of being subject to the whims of leadership. I, probably naively pictured Distinguished Engineer to be closer to that, but maybe not.
Sadly, yes, it's true. New AI projects are getting funded and existing non-AI projects are getting mothballed. It's very disruptive and yet another sign of the hype being a bubble. Companies are pivoting entirely to it and neglecting their core competencies.
fair, but it doesn't mean some of them are genuinely experimenting and figuring out interesting ways to use LLMs, some examples I personally love and admire
* simonw - Simon Willison, he could just continue building datasette or help Django, but he started exploring LLMs
Why don't you accept it as, dude is experimenting and learning new tool, how cool is that, if this is possible, what else can I build with these tools?