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Just a couple of days ago I was in a room with data scientists (my background in electrical/computer engineering with a DSP/ML specialization and I have been a software engineer for the last ten years). So I was showing the architecture of the RAG system I implemented (with a REST API) and how I got to deploy a Llama-2 model in AWS infra. I could tell all the engineering stuff was way over their heads. I just kept thinking, how can they help me as we move forward to production (deploying to Kubernetes and hardening the code). Software engineering skills are becoming more important to make it in the ML world as now systems need to interact continuously, almost in real-time, with company data rather than taking the data and training a model for later deployment.

@melski9205

9 ай бұрын

Dude, they wrote ML so they can replace you and here you are again! I can't believe it!

@gerardorosiles8918

9 ай бұрын

@@melski9205 what do you mean by "they wrote ML"? You have no freaking idea of what you are talking about! It just shows you are some type of wannabe who believes he knows everything because he took a course in Udemy. You clearly have never worked in the field. This is one of the most idiotic comments I've ever seen.

@smortlogician9258

9 ай бұрын

@@melski9205 what?

@SHA-3qua

8 ай бұрын

@@melski9205if code can be written with an llm it doesn’t need to be coded by a human

@andersberg756

8 ай бұрын

Gerardo, i feel you in that situation where you're like "oh, I'm not getting thru here"! I'd suggest to if you have time, run your presentation with one representative of the audience, or even just comment the slides. That way next time you'll hopefully know in advance! :-) But I guess your main point is why the data and ML engineer roles came into being in the first place? Some DS ppl will happily learn engineering skills and mindset, those you can take along on the journey. Maybe for the others it's better to have them in more classic roles in predictive modeling, data viz etc? Or isn't there enough work like that in your context?

I am a software engineer and this is exactly what I have been doing at work for the past few months, using GenAI models and vector databases for RAG to build a chatbot UI. Didn't knew it's called "new age machine learning engineer" now haha. Thought we don't use langchain. We are doing everything from scratch, all the code, be it for vector databases or interacting with ML models. I think this is definitely going to become very popular because of it's usefulness, though from a job market perspective, data scientists would probably still be paid higher. Hope that changes though.

Very well put together. I am an old school software engineer with a strong background in backend development who has, I think according to your definition, become a Machine Learning Engineer. I compensate for the areas in which I am lacking (front end UI development) by a) developing within the Drupal content management system and b) using an AI assistant for a good deal of coding. I have developed, over the past few months, 3 R.A.G. applications which are fairly robust and work very well. I did all of this using PHP as my primary language (people nowadays seem to forget that APIs, by definition, are, or should be, language agnostic). I tell you all of this to say that your analysis is spot on. If you can do this sort of work with a team, that's the best. But, I'm living proof that if you absolutely have to, you can also do it on your own -- thanks in no small part to Generative AI.

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@user-hp6gf7lu8c

8 ай бұрын

Next Age, ML engineers are focused on java. Just java ... 😜😜😜

Mate, what you described as "new age" is just a regular MLE in any serious company. It has always been about developing applications, deploying models etc. It took me like 5 minutes to understand a RAG architecture, because most of it is literally just calling an API and the rest is very very basic data science by computing vector similarities... you also don't need a vector database to achieve this lol, you can store vectors in-memory a lot of the time queried from a regular Postgres database. I do agree though that the data science space will have higher demands for SWE skills in the future. and I have been anticipating that for the past 3 years with the projects I've undertaken.

@Siroitin

8 ай бұрын

My thoughts also. People just want to chase new ML trends so they don't have to stick to boring ML engineering. There is always possible easier solution behind the corner

I doubt any of them could write down the batch distribution formula

Great video! I like when you implicitly say that this new role is about SW with a probabilistic mindset (ps: i see probabilistic as one form of non-determinism), it makes total sense to me. By the way, I have been people describing this new role as AI Engineer, where the main goal is to develop reasoning systems instead of learning system as ML Engineers would do

That is, point by point, EXACTLY what we're going through. I mean, each point has been a deep discussion in and of itself.

Basically It was all about gen-AI, did not expect that

I came to the same conclusion. Less about training models mode about Vector DB and building pipelines, using some json to pass around data and present it to the user in a web UI.

Love this! I reallly like how you don't just say use Botpress or Voiceflow and you will have a full on valuable product for most businesses - you really state the hard facts; you need some software skills to truly adapt and customize down the line. Would love to see more vids on the end-to-end software engineering workflows and pipelines for these AI projects. Keep up the good work!

Nice video again Dave ❤

Amazing content, Dave!

I 100% agree. I am a financial analysis major and have realized I can essentially automate all of my research, visualize it and make it a lil nice app hahahah. all with ML / AI , etc. But MAN as a nooby this shit is fucking crazy. I literally had to drop hobbies because their is so much learning it is insane on top of my full time job and school.

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this is like the only good video out there for his topic. great work!

@daveebbelaar

7 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

Great content! Thanks

Dave - thank you for the great video -)

Hi Dave, I am waiting to be approved to join Data Alchemy community. Looking forward to it. Thanks!

Thanks for the video Dave. Usefull and practical. I would appreciate (and others as well I think) a video about using GPU vs CPU or both at the same time. There is a lot which can be improved, as I notice unexplainable results in performance when running the same code and switch from GPU to CPU to compare speed. You would expect that a GPU is always x times faster but this is not always the case I noticed. Sometimes a GPU is only like 10-20% faster than, eg an i5 12th gen. A lot has to do with optimizing the usage of the CUDA toolkit, but even then, I feel this can be way more efficient and we currently 'waste' precious compute capacity because of that. 'Ga zo door Dave ! Je brengt soms als enige gerelateerde content naar buiten zoals deze video, zeer waardevol!'

Based on this, joining Meta as a software engineer in their Gen. AI teams might be the smart move since you get to be the “new age ML Eng”

I've been doing exactly what you said in this video ever since Chat-GPT was released (back then we used the GPT-3 API instead of the GPT-3.5 and 4. I can confirm that everything said in this video is true.

Hello, great video. I have a question. What are the best skills to learn now?

Hi, Dave! Can you please make a video on Full roadmap to start with machine learning followed by deep learning to transformers continued with generative AI...and if you can give topic wise roadmap then it will be very helpful for us to start... hope you will do 😊 it's a request from one of your subscriber 😊 Thank you in advance ❤.. Btw you are my favourite youtuber in machine learning and generative AI category .

@ComicKumar

9 ай бұрын

yes... we need it please

@marcellawonderweapon4008

8 ай бұрын

Yes! Do it!

@Siroitin

8 ай бұрын

Probably you should go to university or college because learning is about "grinding". If you don't have time or money, get really intimate with one machine learning book. For students in university, it is really common to get really attached to one book and you are going to understand everything through that book. For me it is George Casella's "Statistical Inference"

Awesome explanation of the state of Artificial Intelligence

u can do RAG. but u also likely need some fine tuning which is less softwary and more data science

The role of software dev and engineer is becoming more and more general. Basically, other domains are continuing to merge and it seems those who are software dev or engineer are either naturally picking up these skills in other field/domains and/or it’s becoming more of the ‘norm’ to know Just my opinion

00:04 The new age machine learning engineer has different skills compared to a traditional machine learning engineer 02:18 Building applications with language models 04:42 Software engineers need to adapt their mindset to work with non-deterministic generative AI applications. 07:07 Building classification algorithms requires a combination of software engineering skills and experimental mindset. 09:33 Large language models are a new toolkit for machine learning engineers with their own rules and strategies. 12:00 AI applications are customer-facing and require a backend AI engineer 14:14 Key roles in completing these projects are configuring data connections and logic setup, frontend development, and understanding of Python. 16:27 Generative AI is a big step forward, but traditional analytics and machine learning continue to account for the majority of tasks and have new applications. 18:44 Data intelligence is about turning raw data into valuable information. 20:42 Subscribe and stay updated on KZread

Hi Dave!! Great vid as usual. I tried to schedule a meeting with you, but no slots availble :(. When will you be availble again? I am interested in your program.

@daveebbelaar

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! We expect to have more room end of October again. I am sorry about the inconvenience. Make sure to subscribe to the newsletters on our website to be the first to be notified when we are opening up new slots for Data Freelancer again.

@smart0758

9 ай бұрын

@@daveebbelaar I did! I am so happy to see how you have been developing since last year. Good luck in your career!

Exactly my thoughts.. What will be the fate of the traditional ML engineers juxtaposed alongside the new age ML engineers.

Summary: An (ML) engineer must understand a problem to determine an appropriate solution

Sounds more like the data scientists will be unnecessary for most of these teams, just software developers with a bit of devops and machine learning skills.

huhh... flask is python though

Если я усну и проснусь через сто лет и меня спросят, что сейчас происходит в ML, я отвечу: не умеют писать код и не понимают что делают