Anxious about this upcoming era of AI
I have been a SWE for 7 years and I desperately wanted to change jobs last year and ended up taking a Security Engineer in Cloud role at Google. The reason was lame, interviews were easy as I had security certifications, I didnt have to grind leetcode mindlessly. I see all the articles and videos around GPT4 and Bard and it is very evident that we are at the cusp of change like how internet changed everything, now AI is going to change a lot of things. This makes me anxious, am I missing out on a golden opportunity, during 90s, people who learned to code and invested in companies like Google did the right thing. What is the right thing for us now? Becoming an AI engineer? Investing in AI companies looks like the right way, but do I take the bite and switch careers and start from ground up again? I started feeling more worried with all the articles around GPT4 and cold fusions video about future, #engineering #software #swe #securityengineer TC: 300k MCOL Not on Visa
I feel the same OP. Considering MS or self learning but not sure what is the right path and do I need to do either of this or stick to being a SWE
Don't fall for hype, GPT-4 is a marginal improvement on GPT-3. It is not going to end software as an industry. We need more theoretical breakthroughs to get AGI. OpenAI and everyone associated wants to keep the hype rolling to paper over this problem, and as you can see, it's been working.
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In your mind, what is an AI engineer?
did you transition from swe to security? if so, how did you do it?
Yes I did. All my 7 years of being a SWE, I was building a variety of security products. With some domain knowledge, and personal interest, I finished some certifications and gained more broad and narrow security knowledge and was able to clear interviews. Coding rounds for security engineers are basic scripting (LC easy)
What certifications did you get?