Background : Software Engineer at an MNC with work only related to backend tech stack predominantly java Spring boot, our org is shifting towards cloud infra (yeah a lot of legacy debt). Trigger to start AI: Read this post the other day on how the AI is changing the software Engineering landscape and how fast its progressing. The models which used to hallicunate are making learned decisions make it clear that “something big is happening” (also the title of the article i read). But i knew all of this, why get triggered now? i was largely cut off by the ecosystem by only focusing on what i had on my plate, my work at the company and having some time for myself to not get a burn out… Curious enough on a weekend i started pondering on clawd bot , agentic AI systems and ofc claude opus 4.6 … and what came next blew my mind… I was able to ship an end-to-end working application from frontend to backend with databases and a free cloud provider IN A WEEKEND!! (tbh, if i had an unlimited token count i believe it would’ve taken a few hours at max!) the ability of a model to write code and handle test , make pipeline and deploy is scary! openAI stated it fine tuned and developed its newest codex model 5.3 with its own model, so in a wild sense… models are making their own models and getting tuned(learning along the way) and if you make a point of it being a machine that only needs energy and infra, it will run 24/7 round the clock towards achieving its goal! the fact that i was going to ask AI to write this article for me was comical on its own(i chose not to so, you can make that jusdgement looking at my grammar and punctuations and a OCD to use parenethesis , idk why… so trust me i wrote it) A lot of people say if you are going for a PhD today, its going to be absolutely worthless because these LLM’s are far more efficient in getting us the results in record time, and the same guys tell us to upskill to not get left behind? I mean, WHAT SHOULD I DO BRO? TELL ME?? at times i feel like we are at mercy of the top brass, they’ll be building models we would be the worker class, or may be in future donating our bodies to them to store data/produce energy? (matrix reference) What i’ll be doing: I think i’ll anyway be starting with some basics of AI and gradually building on top, idk what the future holds but i can’t just sit like this knowing what’s been brewing Request: I’d humbly request for a guidance, or a mentor(i never had one) or anything you think would add value towards my preparedness… I also urge you guys to have a healthy discussion on the comment section on your thoughts and share it for the greater good! [Marking this post as a checkpoint on what i’ll achieve in next 1 year or anyone who’ll be starting with me on this journey.] submitted by /u/CanFluid
Originally posted by u/CanFluid on r/ArtificialInteligence
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