An acquaintance who works at FAANG says he still builds non-LLM ML systems because of the cost of running LLMs at that scale

> I get being naturally bummed by this but I can't justify feeling anything but vaguely nostalgic about it. Someone with a $20 subscription can mog anything I can build with the skills I picked up.

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