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Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr... by move6729 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:20PM (#50407689)
That's exactly what's happening. Software -> 0 marginal cost (obviously still need engineers to actually make the architecture). LLMs -> Price of Energy / Amortized Cost of GPUs. "AI Labs" -> Owned by Creditors
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Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr... by s_u_d_o on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:04PM (#50409586)
From an engineer, who’s devastated by this, i have to admit/raise my concern: why do we still need engineers to make architecture? Why is everyone saying that’s a must? For me the toughest problem was coding a huge repo/pkgs, architecture should be much of an easier task to do. I’ve seen it do sys design, scaled architecture better than 10X engineers. With good planning, context and prospective info -> it can produce extremely good architecture even for complex systems.
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Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr... by nonethewiser on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:26PM (#50410176)
Im not sure I would say architecture specifically. Just anything on the input and output.
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Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr... by move6729 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:02AM (#50410811)
It cant lmao (skill issue)
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