I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

	I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch(twitter.com)
	605 points by bilsbie 17 days ago \| 681 comments
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	HN Discussion: ↑Learning cutting-edge tech as a young person is a valuable tradition worth encouraging ↑Understanding LLM fundamentals builds intuition for future problems and knowing when not to use them ↓Advice is outdated; LLM jobs require proprietary infra and knowledge is already commoditized ↓Autoregressive LLMs will become dated; broader foundational ML knowledge is more valuable ~Learning resources and hardware barriers make this advice difficult to follow in practice